Explorations in Giftedness

This book is a scholarly overview of the modern concepts, definitions, and theories of intellectual giftedness and gifted education.

Robert J. Sternberg (Author), Linda Jarvin (Author), Elena L. Grigorenko (Author)

9780521740098, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 September 2010

318 pages, 5 tables
22.7 x 15.5 x 1.7 cm, 0.44 kg

"...If you are looking for a place where Sternberg’s enormous body of work on talent, abilities, intelligence, insight, reasoning, creativity, wisdom, expertise, and giftedness is pulled together into one book, this is the book for you.... provided practical guidance for parents, psychologists, and educators who wish to foster the development of exceptional abilities in all children.... Educators wanting to use the book with their graduate students will want to provide careful guidance, in which case Explorations in Giftedness could happily be used to stimulate discussion of the big questions in the field..."
–Dr. Dona Matthews, Hunter College, City University of New York, PsycCRITIQUES

This book is a scholarly overview of the modern concepts, definitions, and theories of intellectual giftedness, and of past and current developments in the field of gifted education. The authors consider, in some detail, the roles of intelligence, creativity, and wisdom in giftedness and the interaction between culture and giftedness, as well as how giftedness can be understood in terms of a construct of developing expertise. The authors also review and discuss a set of key studies that address the issues of identification and education of children with intellectual gifts. This volume may be used as a summary overview of the field for educators, psychologists, social workers, and other professionals who serve intellectually gifted children and their families.

1. What is giftedness?
2. Theories of giftedness
3. WICS as a model of giftedness
4. Intelligence and giftedness
5. Creativity and giftedness
6. Wisdom and giftedness
7. Giftedness as developing expertise
8. Giftedness and culture
9. Learning disabilities, giftedness, and gifted/LD
10. Identifying the gifted
11. Educating the gifted.

Subject Areas: Educational psychology [JNC], Intelligence & reasoning [JMRN], Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Child & developmental psychology [JMC]