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Encyclopedia of giftedness, creativity, and talent / editor, Barbara Kerr.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles : SAGE, c2009.Description: 2 v. (xxvi, 1057 p.) 29 cmISBN:
  • 9781412949712
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LC 3993.2 .En19 2009
Contents:
v. 1. A-K -- v. 2. L-Z.
Summary: Reviews research findings on giftedness, talent, and creativity and their effect on education, training, science and the arts, government policy, and everyday life. Provides a balanced, objective assessment of the various perspectives on the nature of intelligence, innovation and optimal states.Covers all major facets of the field, including achievement of motivation, artistic ability, creative personality, emotional intelligence, gender differences, genius, intelligence testing, learning styles, minority under representation, multiple intelligences, musical ability, prodigies, scientists, self-actualization, and thinking skills. Features: balance and critical discussion of the controversies that have animated research and theory making, grouping and instructional strategies which promote best outcomes in achievement and social/emotional development of gifted children, identification strategies and curriculum models, pertinent facts from fields of education, psychology, sociology, arts, evaluates policies that have hindered gifted children and making of persuasive case for appropriately challenging and differentiated education, examines how giftedness, creativity, and talent are defined in the past and how current meanings have emerged.
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Reference Reference Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Reference LC 3993.2 .En19 2009 v.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 3AEA0000312052
Reference Reference Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Reference LC 3993.2 .En19 2009 v.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 3AEA0000312077

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. A-K -- v. 2. L-Z.

Reviews research findings on giftedness, talent, and creativity and their effect on education, training, science and the arts, government policy, and everyday life. Provides a balanced, objective assessment of the various perspectives on the nature of intelligence, innovation and optimal states.Covers all major facets of the field, including achievement of motivation, artistic ability, creative personality, emotional intelligence, gender differences, genius, intelligence testing, learning styles, minority under representation, multiple intelligences, musical ability, prodigies, scientists, self-actualization, and thinking skills. Features: balance and critical discussion of the controversies that have animated research and theory making, grouping and instructional strategies which promote best outcomes in achievement and social/emotional development of gifted children, identification strategies and curriculum models, pertinent facts from fields of education, psychology, sociology, arts, evaluates policies that have hindered gifted children and making of persuasive case for appropriately challenging and differentiated education, examines how giftedness, creativity, and talent are defined in the past and how current meanings have emerged.

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