Authors: Robert J. Sternberg (Editor), Janet Davidson
ISBN-13: 9780521838412, ISBN-10: 052183841X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 2005
Edition: REV
Robert J. Sternberg, Ph.D., is IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale, Director of the PACE Center at Yale, and was the 2003 President of the American Psychological Association. He is the author of over 1000 publications on topics related to cognition and intelligence. He has won numerous awards from professional associations and holds five honorary doctorates.
Janet E. Davidson is Associate Professor of Psychology at Lewis & Clark College, where she won the Professor of the Year award in
1997. She does research on several aspects of giftedness, including the roles that insight and metacognitive skils play in gifted problem solving performance. In 1988, she won a Mensa Education and Research Foundation Award for Excellence.
This book explores the major conceptions of what it means to be gifted.
1 | Gifted education without gifted children : the case for no conception of giftedness | 1 |
2 | Youths who reason exceptionally well mathematically and/or verbally : using the MVT:D[superscript 4] model to develop their talents | 20 |
3 | A child-responsive model of giftedness | 38 |
4 | School-based conception of giftedness | 52 |
5 | Giftedness, talent, expertise, and creative achievement | 64 |
6 | Permission to be gifted : how conceptions of giftedness can change lives | 80 |
7 | From gifts to talents : the DMGT as a developmental model | 98 |
8 | Nurturing talent in gifted students of color | 120 |
9 | The Munich model of giftedness designed to identify and promote gifted students | 147 |
10 | Systemic approaches to giftedness : contributions of Russian psychology | 171 |
11 | Giftedness and gifted education | 187 |
12 | The importance of contexts in theories of giftedness : learning to embrace the messy joys of subjectivity | 201 |
13 | Feminist perspectives on talent development : a research-based conception of giftedness in women | 217 |
14 | The three-ring conception of giftedness : a developmental model for promoting creative productivity | 246 |
15 | In defense of a psychometric approach to the definition of academic giftedness : a conservative view from a die-hard liberal | 280 |
16 | Creative giftedness | 295 |
17 | Genetics of giftedness : the implications of an emergenic-epigenetic model | 312 |
18 | The WICS model of giftedness | 327 |
19 | Beyond expertise : conceptions of giftedness as great performance | 343 |
20 | Domain-specific giftedness : applications in school and life | 358 |
21 | Extreme giftedness | 377 |
22 | Making giftedness productive | 395 |
23 | The actiotope model of giftedness | 411 |
24 | The scientific study of giftedness | 437 |