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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

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Author Biography: Robert J. Sternberg

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.

Book Synopsis

This book explores the major conceptions of what it means to be gifted.

Table of Contents

1Gifted education without gifted children : the case for no conception of giftedness1
2Youths who reason exceptionally well mathematically and/or verbally : using the MVT:D[superscript 4] model to develop their talents20
3A child-responsive model of giftedness38
4School-based conception of giftedness52
5Giftedness, talent, expertise, and creative achievement64
6Permission to be gifted : how conceptions of giftedness can change lives80
7From gifts to talents : the DMGT as a developmental model98
8Nurturing talent in gifted students of color120
9The Munich model of giftedness designed to identify and promote gifted students147
10Systemic approaches to giftedness : contributions of Russian psychology171
11Giftedness and gifted education187
12The importance of contexts in theories of giftedness : learning to embrace the messy joys of subjectivity201
13Feminist perspectives on talent development : a research-based conception of giftedness in women217
14The three-ring conception of giftedness : a developmental model for promoting creative productivity246
15In defense of a psychometric approach to the definition of academic giftedness : a conservative view from a die-hard liberal280
16Creative giftedness295
17Genetics of giftedness : the implications of an emergenic-epigenetic model312
18The WICS model of giftedness327
19Beyond expertise : conceptions of giftedness as great performance343
20Domain-specific giftedness : applications in school and life358
21Extreme giftedness377
22Making giftedness productive395
23The actiotope model of giftedness411
24The scientific study of giftedness437

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