Full Description
This book brings together recent postgraduate research in the broad area of giftedness, talent development and gifted education conducted across New Zealand and Australia. It addresses the significant demand for research in the field undertaken outside the United States and offers valuable practical insights.
Divided into 14 chapters, the book explores giftedness and talent in a diverse range of socioeconomic cohorts and contexts, including examinations of gender, race and ethnicity. Though primarily intended for practitioners, it will also benefit undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and educators in New Zealand, Australia and beyond.
Contents
1 Introduction to Giftedness and Talent: Australasian.- 2 Risk and Resilience in Gifted Young People from Low Socio-economic Backgrounds.- 3 Young Talented Readers: The Interaction and Engagement of Metacognition during Critical Literacy Discourse.- 4 Gifted Young Adolescents: The Synergy of Self.- 5 Group Support for Parents of Gifted Children in the Western Region of Melbourne, Australia.- "Put Your Seatbelt On, Here We Go": The Transition to School for Children Identified as Gifted.- 7 Academic Success among a Cohort of Gifted and Talented Māori and Pasifika Secondary School Boys: Elements Contributing to their Achievement.- 8 The Big-fish-little-pond Effect: Self-concepts of Gifted Students in a Part-time Gifted Programme.- 9 Gifted and Talented Adolescents' Experiences of School in Aotearoa in New Zealand.- 10 Spirituality and Giftedness Type: A Tale of Adolescent Variance.- 11 Full-year Acceleration of Gifted High School Students: A 360o View.- 12 The Role of Racial-ethnic Identity to the Educational Engagement of Culturally Diverse Gifted New Zealand Adolescents.- 13 Supporting the Development of Academic Talent: The Perspectives of Students, Parents and Teachers.- 14 Smart Girls in the Media: The Impact of Popular Culture on the Development of Adolescent Rural Gifted Girls' Identity and Subsequent Talent Development.- 15 An Enigma: Barriers to the Identification of Students who are Gifted with a Learning Disability.
