| Description |
xxxv, 455 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Leonie Kronborg -- Introduction. A developing research culture / Wilma Vialle and John Geake -- Section 1. Pedagogy and Curriculum -- 1.1. Teaching primary school students talented in mathematics / Neil Hall -- 1.2. A qualitative assessment of gifted and talented students undertaking research science projects / Aleah Poncini and Laurance Poncini -- 1.3. Students' and teachers' perceptions of selective schooling / Peter O'Brien and Wilma Vialle -- 1.4. Factors influencing high achieving students in the secondary school / Peter Street |
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Section 2. Policy and Practice -- 2.1. The reality of opportunities for gifted and talented students / Jill Forster -- 2.2. Enrusing identification of disadvantaged and culturally diverse gifted students in Queensland / Kay L. Gibson |
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Section 3. Social and Emotional Needs -- 3.1. Threats to gifted and talented students' self-concepts in the big pond: research results and education implications / Rhonda G. Craven and Herbert W. Marsh -- 3.2. How ability grouping turns big fish into little fish, or does it? Of optical illusions and optimal environments / Miraca U.M. Gross -- 3.3. Metacognition and motivation orientations of intellectually gifted students / Lorna K.S. Chan -- 3.4. A developmental perspective on the motivation of gifted and talented students / Mary D. Ainley |
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Section 4. School and Family -- 4.1. The attitudes of Catholic primary school teachers towards educational provisions for gifted talented and students / Susen R. Smith and Lorna K.S. Chan -- 4.2. How do preservice teachers view gifted students? Evidence from a NSW study / Neil G. Carrington and Stan B. Bailey -- 4.3. Impacting on teacher attitudes toward gifted students / Margaret Plunkett -- 4.4. Parents' and teachers' perception of gifted provision / Margaret Taplin and Marion White -- 4.5. Student views of differentiated education for ability differences / Patricia Long |
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Section 5. Neuropsychology and Cognition: 5.1. Neuroscientific research findings and their potential application to gifted education practice / Michael O'Boyle -- 5.2. Thinking as evolution in the brain: implications for giftedness / John Geake -- 5.3. A proposed model describing the realisation of gifted potential |
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Section 6. Special Populations -- 6.1. Aboriginal students succeeding in the senior high school years: a strengthening and changing aboriginality challenges the negative stereotype / Alan Day -- 6.2. Constructing a curriculum plan for gifted students in small rural schools / Janet Varley and Wilma Vialle -- 6.3. Sugar, spice and puppy dog tails: gendered perceptions of talent and high achievement / Julie E. Landvogt, Gilah C. Leder and Helen J. Forgasz -- 6.4. Dual exceptionality: gifted children with special needs / Deslea Konza and Margaret Moroney -- Afterword. Charting new research agendas / John Geake and Wilma Vialle |
| Summary |
The gifted enigma: a collection of articles |
| Notes |
"Originally published in the Australasian Journal of Gifted Education." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Gifted children -- Education -- Australia.
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Gifted children -- Education.
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| Author |
Geake, John
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Vialle, Wilma.
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| ISBN |
1740257561 |
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