Gifted & Talented Books

New and Published Books

1. Children as Researchers in Primary Schools

   Choice, Voice and Participation

   By Sue Bucknall

   How often do your primary school pupils have the opportunity to engage in open-ended, sustained pieces of work that offer them choice and control? Do you find that the curriculum restricts openings to provide your pupils with real challenge? Is your school grappling with finding effective ways in...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Hit the Headlines

   Exciting journalism activities for improving writing and thinking skills

   By Colin Macfarlane

   Hit the Headlines charts out a series of fun and inspiring, cross-curricular journalism workshops that enhance key skills and confidence in areas such as: Writing and editing. Critical assessment. Interviewing and observation. Mental flexibility and resourcefulness. Role-playing and...

   Published May 6th 2012 by Routledge
3. How Dogmatic Beliefs Harm Creativity and Higher-Level Thinking

   Edited by Don Ambrose, Robert J. Sternberg

   Series: Educational Psychology Series

   In a world plagued by enormous, complex problems requiring long-range vision and interdisciplinary insights, the need to attend to the influence of dogmatic thinking on the development of high ability and creative intelligence is pressing. This volume introduces the problem of dogmatism broadly,...

   Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
4. Confronting Dogmatism in Gifted Education

   Edited by Don Ambrose, Robert Sternberg, Bharath Sriraman

   This title looks at the dogmatism that limits the perspectives of professionals, policymakers, and other stakeholders in gifted education. In a field where concepts and definitions surrounding high ability have been contested for many years, there is increasing interest in clarifying these notions...

   Published October 26th 2011 by Routledge
5. Nadia Revisited

   A Longitudinal Study of an Autistic Savant

   By Lorna Selfe

   This book re-examines the case of Nadia, discovered as a child aged six, who had been drawing with phenomenal skill and visual realism from the age of three, despite having autism and severe learning difficulties. The original research was published in 1977 and caused great international interest....

   Published June 15th 2011 by Psychology Press
6. Handbook of Special Education

   Edited by James M. Kauffman, Daniel P. Hallahan

   Special education is now an established part of public education in the United States—by law and by custom. However, it is still widely misunderstood and continues to be dogged by controversies related to such things as categorization, grouping, assessment, placement, funding, instruction, and a...

   Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge
7. Gifted Lives

   What Happens when Gifted Children Grow Up

   By Joan Freeman

   This book reveals the dramatic stories of twenty outstandingly gifted people as they grew from early promise to maturity in Britain. Recorded over the last thirty-five years by award-winning psychologist, Joan Freeman, these fascinating accounts reveal the frustrations and triumphs of her ...

   Published September 14th 2010 by Routledge
8. Effective Teaching in Gifted Education

   Using a Whole School Approach

   By Wendy Robinson, Jim Campbell

   Effective teaching for gifted and talented students is high on the agenda of school systems across the world. Written by leading international scholars in the field, Effective Teaching in Gifted Education presents a thoroughly enlightening analysis of the practice of schools judged to be...

   Published February 24th 2010 by Routledge
9. Raising the Achievement of All Pupils Within an Inclusive Setting

   Practical Strategies for Developing Best Practice

   By Belle Wallace, Sue Leyden, Diane Montgomery, Carrie Winstanley, Michael Pomerantz, Sally Fitton

   Schools everywhere are concerned with raising standards according to government requirements, particularly for those pupils who could be termed 'more able'. The key challenges revolve around government initiatives such as Every Child Matters, independent learning, inclusion and differentiation,...

   Published November 3rd 2009 by Routledge
10. Gifted and Talented Education

    Edited by Deborah Eyre

    Series: Major Themes in Education

    The education of gifted and talented pupils is an established domain of study but research in the area has increased dramatically, particularly in the past fifteen years. The reason for this burgeoning interest relates principally not to conventional educational concerns but rather to the desire of...

    Published March 11th 2009 by Routledge