| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Risk and resilience in gifted young people from low socio-economic bacgrounds / Nadine Ballam -- Young talented readers : the interaction and engagement of metacognition during critical literacy discourse / Michelle Bannister-Tyrrell -- Gifted young adolescents : the synergy of the self / Lisette Dillon -- Group support for parents of gifted children in the Western region of Melbourne, Australia / Sally-Ann Free -- 'Put your seatbelt on, here we go': the transition to school for children identified as gifted / Nikki Masters -- Academic success among a cohort of gifted and talented Māori and Pasifika secondary school boys : elements contributing to their achievement / Graeme Miller -- The big-fish-little-pond effect : self-concepts of gifted students in a part-time gifted programme / Kate Niederer -- gifted and talented adolescents' experiences of school in Aotearoa, New Zealand / Louise Tapper -- Spirituality and giftedness type: a tale of adolescent variance / Russell Walton -- Full-year acceleration of gifted high school students : a 360° view / Janna Wardman -- The role of racial-ethnic identity to the educational engagement of culturally diverse gifted New Zealand adolescents / Melinda Webber -- Supporting the development of academic talent : the perspectives of students, parents and teachers / Lesley Williams -- Smart girls in the media : the impact of popular culture on the development of adolescent rural gifted girls' identity and subsequent talent development / Denise Wood -- An enigma : barriers to the identification of students who are gifted with a learning disability / Catherine Wormald |
| Summary |
This book brings together recent postgraduate research in the broad area of giftedness, talent development and gifted education conducted across New Zealand and Australia. It addresses the significant demand for research in the field undertaken outside the United States and offers valuable practical insights. Divided into 14 chapters, the book explores giftedness and talent in a diverse range of socioeconomic cohorts and contexts, including examinations of gender, race and ethnicity. Though primarily intended for practitioners, it will also benefit undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and educators in New Zealand, Australia and beyond |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 21, 2017) |
| Subject |
Gifted children -- Education -- Australasia
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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Gifted children -- Education
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Australasia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ballam, Nadine, editor
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Moltzen, Roger, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789811067013 |
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9811067015 |
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