The Nature and Nurture of Giftedness - A New Framework for Understanding Gifted Education (Hardcover)

With unprecedented scope and vision, Dr. Dai systematically redefines giftedness and proposes a new framework for the field of gifted education. He identifies nine essential tensions, revolving around three core questions: What do we know about the respective roles of natural ability, environment and experiences, and personal effort in talent development? How do we identify the gifted and talented, and study the process of gifted and talent development? And finally, how do we define the aims of gifted education and promote excellence? Sure to be a milestone in the field, this book scrutinizes some of the deeply held assumptions about the nature of giftedness and explains why a contextual, developmental approach is a more viable alternative to the traditional psychometric approach. It tackles tensions between the gifted-child and talent development movements, and between excellence and equity, and responds to the elitism criticisms in a constructive and comprehensive way.

General

Imprint:	Teachers College Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Education and Psychology of the Gifted Series
Release date:	July 2010
First published:	June 2010
Authors:	David Yun Dai
Dimensions:	232 x 160 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	302
ISBN-13:	978-0-8077-5087-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of specific groups > Teaching of gifted children
LSN:	0-8077-5087-5
Barcode:	9780807750872

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