Download PDF by Barbara A. Kerr: Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent

Library magazine Best Reference 2009

Educators have all started to acknowledge that picking out and accommodating scholars who're slower to benefit could go away at the back of those that research swiftly and imagine creatively. the character of intelligence, the resources of innovation, and the how you can nurture particular talents at the moment are issues of serious curiosity to students in a large choice of disciplines and to most people. Policymakers, starting from university board individuals to leaders of countries, also needs to make sensible judgements approximately how groups and societies will deal with their brightest, such a lot promising students.

With greater than four hundred entries, those volumes evaluate study findings on giftedness, expertise, and creativity and their impact on schooling, education, technology and the humanities, govt coverage, and lifestyle. The Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and skill presents a balanced, goal evaluate of some of the views at the nature of intelligence, innovation, and optimum states. This state of the art source covers all significant elements of the sector, together with fulfillment motivation, creative skill, artistic character, emotional intelligence, gender alterations, genius, intelligence trying out, studying types, minority underrepresentation, a number of intelligences, musical skill, prodigies, scientists, self actualization, pondering abilities, and more.

Key Themes

• Assessment and Identification
• Creativity Studies
• Cultural Issues
• Education
• Eminent People
• Exceptionalities
• Intelligence
• Neuroscience and Genetics
• Populations
• Programs and Interventions
• Psychological Issues
• Talent Domains
• Theories and Models

Key Features

• Provides a balanced and important dialogue of the controversies that experience lively examine and idea making
• Clarifies which grouping and tutorial ideas advertise the easiest results in success and social/emotional improvement of proficient children
• Helps educators make knowledgeable judgements in regards to the id recommendations and the curriculum versions that top meet their scholars' needs
• Contains hundreds of thousands of pertinent evidence from the fields of schooling, psychology, sociology, and the arts
• Evaluates regulations that experience hindered talented young ones and makes a persuasive case for adequately demanding and differentiated education
• Examines how giftedness, creativity, and ability have been outlined some time past and the way present meanings have emerged.