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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 371 EAN: 9781882664771 ISBN: 1882664779 Label: Prufrock Press Manufacturer: Prufrock Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 312 Publication Date: October 01, 2001 Publisher: Prufrock Press Studio: Prufrock Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? offers an examination of the essential topics teachers, parents, and researchers need to know about the social and emotional development of gifted children. Instigated by a task force convened by the National Association for Gifted Children and written by leading scholars in the field of gifted education, the book includes chapters on peer pressure and social acceptance, resilience, delinquency, and underachievement. The book also summarizes several decades worth of research on special populations, including minority, learning-disabled, and gay and lesbian gifted students. Concise, comprehensive, meticulously researched, and wide-ranging in its coverage, The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? is essential reading for those who wish to enable gifted students to develop their strengths and encourage them to make the contributions of which they are capable. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Not a Whole Lot, Turns Out!Do you enjoy "academese"? A page like a minefield of footnotes! (And the writers want more! More research! More funding!) To me, it's like listening to politicians seeking office, max gyrations, min substance. Do you enjoy the careful pleasures of political correctness? I never did. If you can substitute a word like "supermodel" for "talented youth", and a paragraph still works, what does this mean? How I long for a unified work on giftedness by one brilliant consciousness, instead ... Read More Rating:  - The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know?It's a good book, but rather dry in its presentation. However, being primarily a bringing together and summarizing of published research in this topic, it is an invaluable reference for anyone wanting to really know what are the substantiated findings with respect to gifted children's social and emotional development. I bought it to better understand my daughter, and I am glad I did. But if someone is looking for straightforward parenting tips in dealing with these kids, then some other book may be more ... Read More Rating: - Helpful DataThis book contains a wealth of information about numerous studies done on various facets of gifted education. For those who are data driven (and that certainly is the world we are living in these days) they will find a glut of statistics - many usable and even more of them quotable - to back up theories about what is effective for gifted students. For those trying to come up to speed on gifted education, this offers a crash course in the available research, but as with most books of this nature, it's pretty ... Read More Rating: - Not parent or teacher friendly - even if you're a gifted parent & teacherI was hoping for a research based plain-speaking guide to helping my own highly gifted son. What I found in this book was a dense theory/research based textbook. As a fairly gifted adult and a high school English teacher, I was able to wade through the verbage, but it was no pleasant task. If you're looking for a textbook, this one is fine, but if you want some real-world advice, keep looking. Rating:  - Leading research on socio-emotional development of giftedThe Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children. What Do We Know? Edited by Maureen Niehart, Sally M. Reis, Nancy M. Robinson, Sidney M. Moon, A Publication of the National Association of Gifted Children, Washington, D.C.: Prufrock Press, Inc., 2002 This publication of the National Association for Gifted Children compiles 24 chapters written by leading researchers of the social-emotional development of gifted children. Chapters explore subjects including perfectionism, underachievement, depression, ... Read More 
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