ERIC Number: ED386905
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Publication Date: 1994
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Developing General vs. Specific Abilities and Their Relationship to Diversity. Abstracts of Selected Papers [from] The Annual Esther Katz Rosen Symposium on the Psychological Development of Gifted Children (4th, Lawrence, Kansas, September 30-October 1, 1994).
Kansas Univ., Lawrence.
This monograph presents abstracts of 32 papers on the development of general versus specific abilities and their relationship to diversity in gifted and talented students. Sample topics include: creative development at the college level; cultural and linguistic differences in gifted children; Project High Hopes, a program for gifted students with special needs in upper elementary grades; a model for analyzing underachievement in terms of the peer society; preservice teachers' perceptions of the label "gifted-talented-creative"; long-term effects of educational enrichment during infancy; gifted students in restructured middle schools; cultural differences and young gifted children; misbeliefs about intelligence among psychologists, teachers, school administrators, and parents; narrative language differences between gifted/learning disabled (LD) and nonLD/gifted adolescents; active learning and young gifted children; lifespan achievement of gifted women of color; enhancing gendered interpersonal abilities through drama and theater; problem solving in multiple intelligences with Native American and Hispanic children; advanced development in the social domain among gifted girls; an analysis of the early years of the Brontes at Haworth; creativity and race; differences between gifted teachers', regular classroom teachers', and undergraduate education majors' expressed value of empowered behavior for gifted children and children in general; backroom decision making in gifted education; career development of talented teenage musicians; artistic talent and creativity; the relationship of societal competence to parental expectation and individual potential; comparison of inductive and deductive methods of teaching writing in an inner-city school; gifted education in South Africa; and psychosocial diversity. (DB)
Publication Type: Collected Works - General; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Kansas Univ., Lawrence.
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