TY - BOOK AU - Balchin,Tom AU - Hymer,Barry AU - Matthews,Dona J. TI - The Routledge international companion to gifted education SN - 9780415461368 U1 - 371.95 PY - 2009/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Gifted children KW - Education KW - Research N1 - Part 1: Approaching giftedness: models, definitions and conceptual challenges 1 Brightening up: how children learn to be gifted 3 Guy Claxton and Sara Meadows 2 Neural interconnectivity and intellectual creativity: giftedness, savants and learning styles 10 John Geake 3 Making connections: cognition, emotion and a shifting paradigm 18 Donaj. Matthews and Christy Folsom 4 Giftedness: the gift that keeps on giving 26 Dean Keith Simonton 5 Talent development as seen through the differentiated model of giftedness and talent 32 Franfoys Gagne 6 The nature of creative giftedness and talent 42 Todd Lubart, Asta Georgsdottir and iMaud BesanFon 7 The future of the English definition of giftedness 50 Thomas Balchin Part 2: Widening the focus: international perspectives and cultural issues 8 Gifted education from the German perspective 61 Kurt A. Heller 9 Education practices for gifted learners in France: an overview 68 Pierre Vrignaud, Denis Bonora and Annie Dreux 10 High ability education in Sweden: the Swedish model 76 Ake WI Edfeldt and Inger Wstedt 11 A proposal for gifted education in reluctant schools: the case of the Greek school system 84 Elias G. Matsagouras and Evangelia Dougali 12 We can still do this, or can we? The Russian system of educating and promoting talent in mathematics and science 92 IdaJeltova, Konstantin Lukin and Elena L. Grigorenko 13 Russian strategies for talent development: stimulating comfort and discomfort 101 Victoria S. Yurkevich and Boris M. Davidovich 14 Gifted but underachieving: Australian indigenous children 106 Graham KW Chqafey 15 Lay conceptions of giftedness among the Chinese people 115 David WI Chan Part 3: Whole child considerations: psychosocial development and extra-cognitive issues 16 The ethics of gifted education: what can we learn from medical ethics? 125 Annie Haight 17 Ethical sensitivity and giftedness 134 Kirsi Tirri 18 Morality and giftedness 141 Joan Freeman 19 Emotional intelligence: re-examining some preconceptions 149 Maria Dolores Prieto and Mercedes Ferrando 20 Too long neglected: giftedness in younger children 155 alsa Koshy 21 Teaching the able child ... or teaching the child to be able? 161 Jan Hughes 22 Global success and giftedness 169 Carmen Crepu 23 A reconsideration of the widely held conviction that gifted students prefer to work alone 176 Lisa R. French and Bruce M. Shore Part 4: Theory into practice: differentiation strategies, tools and approaches 24 A computerised strength assessment and internet-based enrichment programme for developing giftedness and talents 185 Joseph S. Renzulli and Sally M. Reis 25 Acceleration: meeting the academic and social needs of students 194 Nicholas Colangelo and Susan Assouline 26 Recognising and fostering creative production 203 Thomas Balchin 27 Programming for talent development: expanding horizons for gifted education 210 Donald Treffinger, Carole A. Nassab and Edwin C. Selby 28 Special educational needs and dual exceptionality 218 Diane Montgomery 29 Visual thinking: a gifted boy with Asperger Syndrome 226 Wiestawa Limont 30 Challenge and creativity: making the links 235 Helen Wilson 31 Educating for enquiry: personalising learning through dialogic teaching 243 Robert Fisher Part 5: Expanding horizons: supporting gifted development more broadly 32 Wisdom, intelligence, creativity, synthesised: a model ofgiftedness 255 Robert . Sternberg 33 Fostering giftedness in urban and diverse communities: context- sensitive solutions 265 lan Warwick and Donaj. Matlthews 34 The role of gifted education in promoting cultural diversity 273 Joyce VanTassel-Baska 35 Developing pupils' problem-solving and thinking skills 281 Belle Wallace 36 Creating inclusive and inclusional understandings of gifts and talents through living educational theory research 292 Marie Huxtable 37 Beyond compare? Thoughts towards an inclusional, fluid and non- normative understanding of giftedness 299 Barry. Hymer 38 Self-theories and lessons for giftedness: a reflective conversation 308 Carol S. Dweck 39 Turning points and future directions in gifted education and talent development 317 Sally M. Reis ER -