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Preface |
vii |
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Contributors |
ix |
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Guest Foreword |
xviii |
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Part I Introduction |
1 |
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1 Introduction and Overview |
3 |
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2 Issues and Challenges in the Education of Gifted Students |
11 |
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3 The Science and Politics of Intelligence in Gifted Education |
24 |
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Part II Conceptions and Identification |
41 |
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4 Nature and Nurture of Giftedness |
45 |
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5 Transforming Gifts into Talents: The DMGT as a Developmental Theory |
60 |
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6 Conception of Giftedness and Its Relationship to the Development of Social Capital |
75 |
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7 Giftedness According to the Theory of Successful Intelligence |
88 |
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8 Multiple Intelligences: A Perspective on Giftedness |
100 |
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9 The Relationship Between Genetics and Intelligence |
113 |
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10 Psychological and Educational Assessment of Gifted Children |
124 |
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11 Excellence with Justice in Identification and Programming |
146 |
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Part III Instructional Models and Practices |
159 |
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12 New Directions in Enrichment and Acceleration |
163 |
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13 What Matters in Curriculum for Gifted Learners: Reflections on Theory, Research, and Practice |
174 |
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14 The Schoolwide Enrichment Model: Developing Creative and Productive Giftedness |
184 |
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15 Talent Searches: Meeting the Needs of Academically Talented Youth |
204 |
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16 Special Summer and Saturday Programs for Gifted Students |
219 |
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17 Talented Youth at the Secondary Level |
229 |
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18 State-Supported Residential High Schools |
238 |
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19 Developing Talent: Time, Task, and Context |
247 |
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20 Mentoring the Gifted and Talented |
254 |
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21 Grouping and Tracking |
268 |
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22 Cooperative Learning and High Ability Students |
282 |
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23 Evaluating Gifted Programs: A Broader Perspective |
293 |
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Part IV Creativity, Thinking Skills, and Eminence |
309 |
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24 Identifying Creative Students, Teaching for Creative Growth |
311 |
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25 In the Habit of Skillful Thinking |
325 |
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26 Artistic Giftedness |
335 |
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27 Talent, Accomplishment, and Eminence |
350 |
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28 When Does Giftedness Become Genius? And When Not? |
358 |
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Part V Psychological and Counseling Issues |
371 |
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29 Counseling Gifted Students |
373 |
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30 Counseling Families |
388 |
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31 Emotional and Spiritual Giftedness |
403 |
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32 Motivational Issues: Potential to Performance |
417 |
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33 Underachievement: A National Epidemic |
424 |
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34 High Risk Gifted Learners |
444 |
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Part VI Populations of Giftedness |
453 |
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35 Extreme Precocity: Prodigies, Savants, and Children of Extraordinarily High IQ |
455 |
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36 Young Gifted Children |
470 |
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37 Gifted Adolescents |
483 |
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38 Gender and Giftedness |
493 |
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39 Equity and Excellence: Culturally Diverse Students in Gifted Education |
506 |
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40 Exceptional Spatial Abilities |
521 |
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41 Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities |
533 |
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Part VII Special Topics |
545 |
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42 International Perspectives |
547 |
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43 Teachers of the Gifted: Gifted Teachers |
558 |
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44 Gifted Education in Rural Schools |
572 |
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45 Technology and the Gifted |
582 |
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46 Gifted Education and Legal Issues: Procedures and Recent Decisions |
590 |
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47 Federal Involvement in Gifted and Talented Education |
604 |
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Appendix Journals in Gifted Education |
609 |
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Name Index |
610 |
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Subject Index |
618 |
