The Routledge international companion to gifted education

Foreword / James H. Borland

Introduction. Reflections on the road ahead

Pt. 1. Approaching giftedness: models, definitions and conceptual challenges

1. Brightening up: how children learn to be gifted / Guy Claxton and Sara Meadows

2. Neural interconnectivity and intellectual creativity: giftedness, savants and learning styles / John Geake

3. Making connections: cognition, emotion and a shifting paradigm / Dona J. Matthews and Christy Folsom

4. Giftedness: the gift that keeps on giving / Dean Keith Simonton

5. Talent development as seen through the differentiated model of giftedness and talent / Francoys Gagne

6. nature of creative giftedness and talent / Todd Lubart, Asta Georgsdottir and Maud Besancon

7. future of the English definition of giftedness / Thomas Balchin

Pt. 2. Widening the focus: international perspectives and cultural issues

8. Gifted education from the German perspective / Kurt A. Heller

9. Education practices for gifted learners in Fiance: an overview / Pierre Vrignaud, Denis Bonora and Annie Dreux

10. High ability education in Sweden: the Swedish model / Ake W. Edfeldt and Inger Wistedt

11. proposal for gifted education in reluctant schools: the case of the Greek school system / Elias G. Matsagouras and Evangelia Dougali

12. We can still do this, or can we? The Russian system of educating and promoting talent in mathematics and science / Ida Jeltova, Konstantin Lukin and Elena L. Grigorenko

13. Russian strategies for talent development: stimulating comfort and discomfort / Victoria S. Yurkevich and Boris M. Davidovich

14. Gifted but underachieving: Australian indigenous children / Graham W. Chaffey

15. Lay conceptions of giftedness among the Chinese people / David W. Chan

Pt. 3. Whole child considerations: psychosocial development and extra-cognitive issues

16. ethics of gifted education: what can we learn from medical ethics? / Annie Haight

17. Ethical sensitivity and giftedness / Kirsi Tirri

18. Morality and giftedness / Joe ̃

19. Emotional intelligence: re-examining some preconceptions / Maria Dolores Prieto and Mercedes Ferrando

20. Too long neglected: giftedness in younger children / Valsa Koshy

21. Teaching the able child ... or teaching the child to be able? / Jan Hughes

22. Global success and giftedness / Carmen Cretu

23. reconsideration of the widely held conviction that gifted students prefer to work alone / Lisa R. French and Bruce M. Shore

Pt. 4. Theory into practice: differentiation strategies, tools and approaches

24. computerised strength assessment and internet-based enrichment programme for developing giftedness and talents / Joseph S. Renzulli and Sally M. Reis

25. Acceleration: meeting the academic and social needs of students / Nicholas Colangelo and Susan Assouline

26. Recognising and fostering creative production / Thomas Balchin

27. Programming for talent development: expanding horizons for gifted education / Donald Treffinger, Carole A. Nassab and Edwin C. Selby

28. Special educational needs and dual exceptionality / Diane Montgomery

29. Visual thinking: a gifted boy with Asperger Syndrome / Wieslawa Limont

30. Challenge and creativity: making the links / Helen Wilson

31. Educating for enquiry: personalising learning through dialogic teaching / Robert Fisher

Pt. 5. Expanding horizons: supporting gifted development more broadly

32. Wisdom, intelligence, creativity, synthesised: a model of giftedness / Robert J. Sternberg

33. Fostering giftedness in urban and diverse communities: context-sensitive solutions / Ian Warwick and Dona J. Matthews

34. role of gifted education in promoting cultural diversity / Joyce Van Tassel-Baska

35. Developing pupils' problem-solving and thinking skills / Belle Wallace

36. Creating inclusive and inclusional understandings of gifts and talents through living educational theory research / Marie Huxtable

37. Beyond compare? Thoughts towards an inclusional, fluid and non-normative understanding of giftedness / Barry J. Hymer

38. Self-theories and lessons for giftedness: a reflective conversation / Carol S. Dweck

39. Turning points and future directions in gifted education and talent development / Sally M. Reis.