The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? offers an examination of the essential topics teachers, parents, and researchers need to know about the social and emotional development of gifted children. Instigated by a task force convened by the National Association for Gifted Children and written by leading scholars in the
The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? offers an examination of the essential topics teachers, parents, and researchers need to know about the social and emotional development of gifted children.
Instigated by a task force convened by the National Association for Gifted Children and written by leading scholars in the field of gifted education, the book includes chapters on peer pressure and social acceptance, resilience, delinquency, and underachievement. The book also summarizes several decades worth of research on special populations, including minority, learning-disabled, and gay and lesbian gifted students.
Concise, comprehensive, meticulously researched, and wide-ranging in its coverage, The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? is essential reading for those who wish to enable gifted students to develop their strengths and encourage them to make the contributions of which they are capable.
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Needed for class It’s a good read. I needed it for a class. I decided to keep it for future reference.
Development of Gifted Children This book is filled to capacity with results of research on Gifted children and adolescents. Each chapter tackles a different aspect of the issue. Very complete but also superficial. More important, it lacked a cohesive thread binding the chapters together. But if you want a book that packs a whole lot int a few hundred pages, this is the one.
An Essential Book First, this book is a collection of short essays on various subjects regarding education and gifted children, all of which are essentially state of the research essays: that is, they briefly survey studies that touch on the subject at hand and summarize what is known and unknown. Which is not in any way meant to be a condemnation of this book. It is but description.That said, this is not only an excellent source book on the subject, but nigh requisite for parents, educators, and…