Definitions and conceptions of giftedness
By: Robert J. Sternberg, editor
Contributors: Sternberg, Robert J; National Association for Gifted Children (U.S.)
Series: Essential readings in gifted education -- 1
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Gifted children -- Education -- United States; Gifted children -- Psychology
Notes: "A joint publication of Corwin Press and the National Association for Gifted Children."

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction to Definitions and conceptions of giftedness / Robert J. Sternberg; title: The nature of giftedness and talent / A. Harry Passow; title: What do we mean by giftedness? : a pentagonal implicit theory / Robert J. Sternberg, Li-fang Zhang; title: Moving into the mainstream? : reflections on the study of giftedness / Nancy Ewald Jackson; title: Metacognition, intelligence, and giftedness / Bruce M. Shore, Arlene C. Dover; title: Divergent thinking, creativity, and giftedness / Mark A. Runco; title: Wisdom as a form of giftedness / Robert J. Sternberg; title: Giftedness and talent : reexamining a reexamination of the definitions / Françoys Gagné; title: Profiles of the gifted and talented / George T. Betts, Maureen Neihart; title: Childhood traits and environmental conditions of highly eminent adults / Herbert J. Walberg ... [et al.]; title: Developmental potential of the gifted / Michael M. Piechowski, Nicholas Colangelo; title: Child prodigies : a distinctive form of giftedness / David Henry Feldman; title: A developmental view of giftedness / Frances Degen Horowitz; title: Wherefore art thou, multiple intelligences? : alternative assessments for identifying talent in ethnically diverse and low income students / Jonathan A. Plucker, Carolyn M. Callahan, and Ellen M. Tomchin