| ID | 008387 |
| Call Number | 371.95/BAL |
| Title Proper | Routledge International Companion to Gifted Education |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Balchin, Tom ; Matthews, Dona J. ; Balchin, Tom (ed.) ; Hymer, Barry |
| Publication | Great Britain, Routledge, 2009. |
| Description | xxiv, 376p Green Spine |
| Note | Highlights strategies to support giftedness in children, providing ideas that work and weeding out those that don't. |
| Note | Part 1: Approaching giftedness: models, definitions and conceptual challenges
Brightening up: how children learn to be gifted
Neural interconnectivity and intellectual creativity: giftedness, savants and learning styles
Making connections: cognition, emotion and a shifting paradigm
Giftedness: the gift that keeps on giving
Talent development as seen through the differentiated model of giftedness and talent
The nature of creative giftedness and talent
The future of the English definition of giftedness
Part 2: Widening the focus: international perspectives and cultural issues
Gifted education from the German perspective
Education practices for gifted learners in France: an overview
High ability education in Sweden: the Swedish model
A proposal for gifted education in reluctant schools: the case of the Greek school system
We can still do this, or can we? The Russian system of educating and promoting talent in mathematics and science
Russian strategies for talent development: stimulating comfort and discomfort
Gifted but underachieving: Australian indigenous children
Lay conceptions of giftedness among the Chinese people
Part 3: Whole child considerations: psychosocial development and extra-cognitive issues
The ethics of gifted education: what can we learn from medical ethics?
Ethical sensitivity and giftedness
Morality and giftedness
Emotional intelligence: re-examining some preconceptions
Too long neglected: giftedness in younger children
Teaching the able child or teaching the child to be able?
Global success and giftedness
A reconsideration of the widely held conviction that gifted students prefer to work alone
Part 4: Theory into practice: differentiation strategies, tools and approaches
A computerised strength assessment and internet-based enrichment programme for developing giftedness and talents
Acceleration: meeting the academic and social needs of students
Recognising and fostering creative production
Programming for talent development: expanding horizons for gifted education
Special educational needs and dual exceptionality
Visual thinking: a gifted boy with Asperger Syndrome
Challenge and creativity: making the links
Educating for enquiry: personalising learning through dialogic teaching
Part 5: Expanding horizons: supporting gifted development more broadly
Wisdom, intelligence, creativity, synthesised: a model ofgiftedness
Fostering giftedness in urban and diverse communities: context- sensitive solutions
The role of gifted education in promoting cultural diversity
Developing pupils' problem-solving and thinking skills
Creating inclusive and inclusional understandings of gifts and talents through living educational theory research
Beyond compare? Thoughts towards an inclusional, fluid and non- normative understanding of giftedness
Self-theories and lessons for giftedness: a reflective conversation
Turning points and future directions in gifted education and talent development
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| Standard Number | 9780415461375 |
| Price. Qualification | Rs.2106(Pb) |
| Classification Number | 371.95 |
| Key Words | Gifted children - Education ; Gifted children - Education - Research ; Gifted children - Education - Cross cultural studies ; Intellect ; Educational psychology ; Asperger's syndrome ; Ability ; Genius |