ABSTRACT

The Routledge International Companion to Gifted Education is a ground-breaking collection of fully-referenced chapters written by many of the most highly-respected authorities on the subject from around the world. These fifty contributors include distinguished scholars who have produced many of the most significant advances to the field over the past few decades, like Joseph Renzulli and Robert Sternberg, alongside authorities who ask questions about the very concepts and terminology embodied in the field – scholars such as Carol Dweck and Guy Claxton.

This multi-faceted volume:

  • highlights strategies to support giftedness in children, providing ideas that work and weeding out those that don’t;
  • is written in jargon-free language in an easy-to use themed format;
  • is the most authoritative collection of future-focused views, ideas and reflections, practices and evaluations yet produced;
  • includes chapters dealing with the major controversies and concerns in the field today, from the problems of identification to changing understandings of giftedness and creativity.

The international aspect of the Companion, and its juxtaposition of points of view – whereby chapters are deliberately positioned and accompanied by editorial commentary to highlight the contrasts with each other – ensures that different views are addressed, allowing the reader to absorb and reflect upon the many perspectives on each issue.

The Companion is a guide to the new ideas and controversies that are informing gifted education discussion and policy-making around the world. It is a first class resource to students and researchers alike.

part 1|55 pages

Approaching giftedness

chapter 1|7 pages

Brightening up

How children learn to be gifted

chapter 2|8 pages

Neural interconnectivity and intellectual creativity

Giftedness, savants and learning styles

chapter 3|8 pages

Making connections

Cognition, emotion and a shifting paradigm

chapter 4|6 pages

Giftedness

The gift that keeps on giving

part 2|3 pages

Widening the focus

chapter 10|8 pages

High ability education in Sweden

The Swedish model

chapter 11|8 pages

A proposal for gifted education in reluctant schools

The case of the Greek school system

chapter 13|5 pages

Russian strategies for talent development

Stimulating comfort and discomfort

chapter 14|9 pages

Gifted but underachieving

Australian indigenous children

part 3|60 pages

Whole child considerations

chapter 16|9 pages

The ethics of gifted education

What can we learn from medical ethics?

chapter 17|7 pages

Ethical sensitivity and giftedness

chapter 18|8 pages

Morality and giftedness

chapter 19|6 pages

Emotional intelligence

Re-examining some preconceptions

chapter 20|6 pages

Too long neglected

Giftedness in younger children

chapter 22|7 pages

Global success and giftedness

part 4|2 pages

Theory into Practice: Differentiation Strategies, Tools and Approaches

part 5|74 pages

Expanding horizons: supporting gifted development more broadly