The SAGE Handbook of Gifted & Talented Education provides a comprehensive and international overview of key challenges and issues in the field of gifted education, making this an invaluable volume for individuals in the fields of education, public and private school administration, psychology and beyond.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• PART I. CONCEPTS OF GIFTEDNESS AND IDENTIFICATION: SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL NEEDS
• Introduction - Dorothy A. Sisk
• Is Gifted Education on the Right Path? - Robert J. Sternberg
• Spiritual Intelligence: Developing Higher Consciousness - Dorothy A. Sisk
• Exchanging Giftedness for a Better Gift - Janet E. Davidson
• Tapping the Untapped – Untold Stories: Revisiting the Concept of Giftedness through the Mirror of Multi-Cultural India - Krishna Maitra and Yukti Sharma
• Honoring Differences: Improving the Representation of Culturally Different Gifted Students based on Equity - Donna Y. Ford, Jemimah L. Young, Brian L. Wright and Ramon B. Goings
• Creativity and Genius - Dean Keith Simonton
• Why Bother Being Different? The Role of Intrinsic Motivation in Creativity - Kelsey Procter Finley and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• New Dynamic Approach to Measure Creativity: Implications for Identification and Education - Taisir Subhi Yamin
• Profoundly Gifted: Outliers among the Outliers - Stephanie S. Tolan
• Eminence in Talented Women by Domain: Issues, Similarities and Differences Utilizing the Piirto Pyramid as a Theoretical Framework - Jane Piirto
• Accepting Exceptionality: Giftedness and ADHD - Kelly M. Lee and F. Richard Olenchak
• Hidden Treasures: Twice Exceptional Students - Linda Kreger Silverman
• Serving and Honoring Gender Diversity in Education - Robert W. Seney
• The Emotional Development of the Gifted and Talented - Joan Freeman
• Friendships of Gifted Children and Youth: Updated Insights and Understanding - Bruce M. Shore, Tanya Chichekian, Petra D. T. Gyles and Cheryl L. Walker
• Parental Influence on Perfectionism among Chinese Gifted Children in Hong Kong - Lai Kwan Chan
• PART II. EDUCATIONAL PROVISION: PROGRAMS AND STRATEGIES
• Introduction - Belle Wallace
• Building Knowledge Bridges: Synthesising Early Years and Gifted Education Research and Practice to Provide an Optimal Start for Young Gifted Children - Margaret Sutherland and Niamh Stack
• Engineering the Schoolwide Enrichment Model: A Case Study of the Process of Change in Education - Joseph S. Renzulli and Sally M. Reis
• TASC: Thinking Actively in a Social Context: A Universal Framework for Developing Thinking Skills and Problem-solving Across the Curriculum - Belle Wallace and Harvey B. Adams
• Real Engagement in Active Problem Solving: An International Collaboration - C. June Maker and Randy Pease
• Designing Dynamic Learning Spaces for Gifted Learners: Authentic, Augmented and Actualized Places and Placements - Gillian Eriksson
• How to Create and Sustain a Culture of Excellence that Benefits Highly Able Students to Enter Top Research Universities - Ian Warwick
• Meta-analysis of 26 Forms of Academic Acceleration: Options for Elementary (Primary) and Secondary Learners with Gifts or Talents - Karen B. Rogers
• What Works Better than the Rest? The Impact of Various Curricula Provisions for Gifted Learners - Janna Wardman and John Hattie
• Continuum of Differentiation - Sandra N. Kaplan
• The National Mentoring Program in Israel: A Model for Developing Leadership among Highly Gifted Students - Rachel Zorman, Menachem Nadler, Pnina Zeltser and Zipi Bashan
• Capacities, Challenges and Curriculum for Australian Learners with Exceptional Potential for English-language Learning - Aranzazu M. Blackburn and Susen R. Smith
• Career-life Counselling for the Gifted in Sub-Saharan Africa - Jacobus G. Maree
• Recognizing, Developing and Offering Talents as Educational Gifts through Living Theory Research - Jack Whitehead and Marie Huxtable
• PART III. GLOBAL RESPONSES TO EMERGING G&T PROVISION: DEFINING THE FUTURE
• Introduction - John Senior
• The Education of Highly Able Children in England: Challenges and Achievements - Hilary Lowe
• Creativity Competition for Gifted Students’ Communication and Self-Esteem Development - Finarya Legoh
• Gifted Education in Brazil: Historical Background, Current Practices and Research Trends - Eunice M. L. Soriano de Alencar, Denise de Souza Fleith and Liliane Bernardes Carneiro
• New Century Gifted Education in Mainland China - Jiannong Shi and Pin Li
• Gifted Education in Asia: Vision and Capacity - David Yun Dai
• Developments and Issues of Gifted Education in Taiwan - Ching-Chih Kuo
• Development of Gifted Education in Turkey - Ugur Sak, Bahadır Ayas, Bilge Bal-Sezerel, N. Nazlı Özdemir, Ercan Öpengin and Şule Demirel
• Gifted Education in Europe - Andrzej E. Sękowski, Barbara Cichy-Jasiocha and Martyna Płudowska
• Giftedness in a Context of 21st-Century Globalization - Don Ambrose
• The Creative Being and Being Creative: Human and Machine Neural Networks - Eva Gyarmathy and John Senior
• Gifted Education: The Future Awaits - Ken McCluskey
• Conclusion - Belle Wallace, Dorothy Sisk and John Senior