First published in 1990. This study on special educational needs explores the identification of the gifted, research on gifted children and programmes, programming for young gifted children, and the socio-psychological implications of giftedness. This title will be of great interest to student teachers, teachers of special educational needs, and parents.
About the Editors;
1. Young Gifted Children: Identification,
Programming, and Socio-Psychological Issues John T. Pardeck and J. W. Murphy
2. A Practical System for Identifying Gifted and Talented Students Joseph S.
Renzulli
3. A Development Model for Identifying and Serving Young Gifted
Children Margie K. Kitano
4. Treasures of Children: Collections Then and Now
or Treasures of Children Revisited Ann McGreevy
5. Supporting Gifted
Students Acquisition of Relevant Knowledge for Solving Math Problems Richard
T. Johnson
6. The Concurrent and Predictive Validity of a New Screening Test
for Young Gifted Children Carol Mardell-Czudnowski and Dorothea S. Goldenberg
7. Waiting for Entry: What Determines Admission to Gifted Programs Russell D.
Renka
8. An Exploration of Gifted Programs John T. Pardeck
9. Kindergarten
and First Grade: A Time for Development and Nurturing Gifted Behaviours in
Young Children Patti L. Chance
10. Gifted Preschoolers within the Classroom
Jane A. Wolfle
11. Challenging the Early Reader M. Gail Hickey
12. Some
Practical Perspectives for Educating Gifted Children Robert C. Morris and
James Parker
13. Integrated Learning: A Viable Alternative to Gifted Progams
Barbara Garner, Susan Haugland, Melissa Spezia and Robert Boissoneau
14. A
Structure for Affective Education for Young Gifted Children Philip B. Waldrop
15. A Plea: Serving Young Gifted Children Merle B. Karnes and Lawrence J.
Johnson
16. Behind the Walls of Poverty: Economically Disadvantaged Gifted
and Talented Children Joan R. Rycraft
17. The Effects of Labelling Children
Gifted: A Review of the Literature M. Gail Hicky and Lisa Toth
18. Giftedness
as a Limited Episteme: A Postmodern Exposition John W. Murphy
John T. Pardeck, John W. Murphy