ABSTRACT
This chapter defines and then explores in more depth a number of concepts that are important to more able education. These include more traditional ideas such as acceleration, character, collaborative learning, depth, enrichment, extension, feedback, flow, meta-cognitive strategies, pace and questioning, alongside some concepts from other fields in education that the book engages with that might prove to be very useful, such as co-construction, cognitive bandwidth, concerted cultivation, cultural capital, Déjà vu and vuja de, desirable difficulties, diversive curiosity, equifinality, ergodic theory, the formation of attention, grit, higher level thinking, the jaggedness principle, motivation, the need for cognition, normative thinking, productive frustration, reciprocal learning, semantic contingency, the tension to learn and threshold concepts.
