ABSTRACT
This book provides an opportunity for researchers, professionals, and practitioners working directly with gifted individuals to engage with and examine the concept of underachievement of highly capable and talented individuals from different perspectives.
Chapters written by experts in gifted education from diverse backgrounds explore underachievement in principle, illuminate underachievement as a response to written and unwritten policy and practice, showcase ranges of intellectual capability outside of traditional academic subjects, shift deficit views of not meeting rigid expectations to honoring interests and cultural values of the individual, and provide suggested and proven practices and services as solutions to bridge the gaps in achievement and performance for gifted and talented students.
Expertly blending theory with practice, Underachievement in Gifted Education is a must read for all practitioners, educators of gifted individuals, and researchers seeking more opportunities to help students align how they choose to exhibit their talent and efforts with external and internal expectations, personal interests, and cultural values to reach their maximum potential.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|62 pages
Perspectives
chapter Chapter 1|18 pages
Underachieving Gifted Children and Adolescents
chapter Chapter 3|14 pages
Underachievement in the Online Environment
part 2|76 pages
Practices
chapter Chapter 6|11 pages
The Impactful Reality of Underachievement of Gifted Students
chapter Chapter 7|21 pages
Addressing Underachievement Connected to Home-School Cultural Discontinuity
chapter Chapter 8|12 pages
Reversing Gifted Underachievement in Kazakhstan
chapter Chapter 9|17 pages
Understanding and Utilizing Learner Profiles to Combat Apathy and Incurious Behaviors in the Classroom
part 3|80 pages
Possibilities