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Emotional, psychological and social issues affecting people with exceptional ability and multiple talents.
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Positive Abnormality
- By Misc Author
- Published 03/1/2008
- High Ability - gifted/talented
Great people are great in the sense that they are
willing to explore their own specialty and values, and have the courage
and insistence to apply their values to society, creating something
meaningful.
How to be a genius
- By Misc Author
- Published 02/16/2008
- High Ability - gifted/talented
A sober look at any field shows that the top performers are rarely more gifted than the also-rans, but they almost invariably outwork them. This doesn't mean that some people aren't more athletic or smarter than others. The elite are elite partly because they have some genetic gifts - for learning and hand-eye coordination, for instance - but the very best rise because they take great pains to maximise that gift.Nerds - the book
- By Misc Author
- Published 02/13/2008
- High Ability - gifted/talented
To child psychologist David Anderegg, the nerd stereotype is not just a fleeting playground obstacle. It represents a particularly American strain of anti-intellectualism that has plagued the culture since Ralph Waldo Emerson endorsed the idea that Americans were “men of action, not men of reflection.”
Gifted Adults
- By Misc Author
- Published 12/11/2007
- High Ability - gifted/talented
By Cheryl M. Ackerman, Ph.D. -- In
a society that largely considers gifted adults to be those who have
achieved some significance in their field, and which focuses almost all
of its attention (when it pays any at all) on gifted children, it is
challenging to think about gifted adults in other ways.
Interviews with Carol Dweck
- By Carol Dweck
- Published 12/10/2007
- High Ability - gifted/talented
Prof. Dweck talks [in multiple videos] about how people's beliefs concerning their own intelligence affects whether they can use and grow their
skills.
Students Who Believe Intelligence Can Be Developed Perform Better
- By Carol Dweck
- Published 12/9/2007
- High Ability - gifted/talented
ScienceDaily news story on research of Carol Dweck,
PhD and others --
Research on how junior high school students' beliefs about intelligence
affect their math grades found that those who believed that
intelligence can be developed performed better than those who believed
intelligence is fixed.
In Praise of 'Thought Competition'
- By Misc Author
- Published 12/3/2007
- High Ability - gifted/talented
By Rebecca Wallace-Segall
-- Ben, 16,
heads to my creative writing lab to work on his heartfelt memoir about
his parents' bitter divorce.
Alison, 15, rushes from her elite
private school in the Bronx to work on her short screenplay... Why, one might wonder,
do these kids need an extracurricular creative writing coach?
The
answer is simple, though twisted: Their schools -- while touting
well-known athletic teams -- are offshoots of the "progressive
education" movement and uphold a categorical belief that "thought
competition" is treacherous.
Permission to be gifted
- By Joan Freeman
- Published 11/17/2007
- High Ability - gifted/talented
No conception of giftedness or talent works in a cultural vacuum... A
cross-cultural view picks up a wide variety of international templates
for the identification and education of the gifted and talented, which
are sometimes entirely opposing.
The
wider view can demonstrate unrecognised stereotyping and expectations,
and illustrate the often serious effects of social influences on
opportunities for the development of high-level potential and its
promotion throughout life.
Gender Differences in Gifted Achievement In Britain and the USA
- By Joan Freeman
- Published 11/17/2007
- High Ability - gifted/talented
In Britain, the academic achievements of gifted girls in grade school
are surpassing those of gifted boys in almost all areas of study and at
all ages, whereas this does not appear to be the case in the USA.
The
evidence suggests two major reasons for this difference. Emotionally,
British girls are now showing greater confidence in their abilities.
Giftedness in the Long Term
- By Joan Freeman
- Published 11/14/2007
- High Ability - gifted/talented
The study, begun
in 1974 across the UK, used a battery of tests, including IQ,
personality, behaviour and in-depth interviewing for children, parents
and teachers.
The
group of labelled gifted were found to have significantly more
emotional problems than the non-labelled group, which they mostly grew
out of.
Now in
their forties, a gifted childhood has not always delivered outstanding
adult success. Better predictive factors were hard work, emotional
support and a positive, open personal outlook.