Full Description
The continual successes of students from East-Asia are confirmed in a variety of international tests of academic achievement and yet, despite this attainment, many scholars have realised that a substantial proportion of these students are also underachieving.
Using the actiotope model of giftedness to integrate a broad range of research, this innovative book features a number of chapters written by internationally recognised scholars in a frank and lively discussion about the origins of exceptionality in students from East Asia. With the actiotope model as the theoretical framework, the book distinguishes between trait models of giftedness and systems approaches to exceptionality. Breaking new ground in understanding the complex interactions between a learner's environment, goals, intelligence and motivations in the development of their ever-expanding knowledge and skill set, this book will:
describe, with examples, a systems approach to the development of exceptionality, allowing educators and researchers the ability to track students with greater precision;
influence the means by which educators identify and support students with the potential for exceptional performance;
suggest possible reasons for the variability in the achievement of potentially gifted students;
provide strategies to support these students;
have a profound effect on the way that exceptionality and giftedness are defined and understood, not only in East Asia but also in the West.
Covering issues that have firm theoretical foundations and which are based on cutting edge ideas, Exceptionality in East Asia has significant implications for gifted education and is essential reading for scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in the psychological and social basis of exceptionality.
Contents
List of contributors Foreword Preface 1. The actiotope model of giftedness: An introduction to some central theoretical assumptions 2. Talent Development as Adaption: The Role of Educational and Learning Capital 3. Confucianism, learning self-concept and the development of exceptionality 4. Pathways to Artistic Giftedness: Developmental Theory as a Complement to the Actiotope Model of Giftedness 5. Chinese Students and Mathematical Problem Solving: An Application of the Actiotope Model of Giftedness 6. Intelligence and academic achievement - with a focus on the actiotope model of giftedness 7. Goal orientations and the development of subjective action space in Chinese students 8. Social-emotional development of Chinese gifted students: A review based within the actiotope model of giftedness 9. The 'Tiger Mother' factor: Curriculum, schooling and mentoring of Asian students in an Australian context 10. Parental involvement within the actiotope model of giftedness: What it means for East-Asian students 11. Support-oriented identification of gifted students in East Asia according to the actiotope model of giftedness 12. Twice-exceptional students with deafness or hard-of-hearing and giftedness 13. Gifted education policy and the development of exceptionality: A Hong Kong perspective 14. The gifted and talented and effective learning: A Focus on the actiotope model of giftedness in the Asian context
