ABSTRACT

Critical Issues and Practices in Gifted Education is the definitive reference for a summary and evaluation of the literature on giftedness, gifted education, and talent development. This third edition:

  • Presents more than 40 summaries of important topics in the field.
  • Features updates to all topics.
  • Introduces new topics, including neuroscience and the roles of leaders in the field.
  • Dives into the latest research.
  • Explores how the research applies to gifted education and the lives of gifted learners.

This book also provides an objective assessment of the available knowledge on each topic, offers guidance in the application of the research, and suggests areas of needed research.

chapter Chapter 2|13 pages

Administrative Leadership

chapter Chapter 6|13 pages

Bullying

chapter Chapter 7|14 pages

Career Decisions and Development

chapter Chapter 8|10 pages

College Students

chapter Chapter 9|10 pages

Conceptions of Giftedness

chapter Chapter 11|19 pages

Creativity

chapter Chapter 12|12 pages

Differentiated Instruction

chapter Chapter 13|15 pages

Diversity and Gifted Education

chapter Chapter 15|12 pages

Excellence Gaps

chapter Chapter 16|16 pages

Gender Issues

chapter Chapter 17|19 pages

Gifted Programming Standards

chapter Chapter 20|12 pages

Legal Issues and Gifted Education

chapter Chapter 23|13 pages

Alternative and Nonverbal Assessments

chapter Chapter 24|14 pages

Parenting Gifted Children

chapter Chapter 25|12 pages

Professional Development

chapter Chapter 26|15 pages

Reading and Talented Readers

chapter Chapter 27|10 pages

Response to Intervention

chapter Chapter 28|12 pages

Rural Gifted Students

chapter Chapter 31|12 pages

Suicide and Gifted Students

chapter Chapter 35|13 pages

Technology

chapter Chapter 36|9 pages

Thinking and Learning Styles

chapter Chapter 37|12 pages

Twice-Exceptionality

chapter Chapter 38|14 pages

Underachievers

chapter Chapter 39|26 pages

Visual and Performing Arts

chapter Chapter 40|13 pages

Writing and the Gifted Learner