Contributors
Foreword
—Carol S. Dweck
Preface
Introduction: A Developmental Understanding of Giftedness and
Talent
—Frances Degen Horowitz
I. Infancy and Early Childhood
High Cognitive Ability in Infancy and Early Childhood
—John Colombo, D. Jill Shaddy, Otilia M. Blaga, Christa J.
Anderson, and Kathleen N. Kannass
Issues in Early Prediction and Identification of Intellectual
Giftedness
—Allen W. Gottfried, Adele Eskeles Gottfried, and Diana Wright
Guerin
II. Childhood
Giftedness During Childhood: The Spatial–Graphic
Domain
—Lynn S. Liben
Toward Broadening Our Understanding of Giftedness: The Spatial
Domain
—Ellen Winner
III. Adolescence
Developmental Transitions in Giftedness and Talent: Childhood
Into Adolescence
—Dona J. Matthews
Giftedness in Adolescence: African American Gifted Youth and
Their Challenges From a Motivational Perspective
—Sandra Graham
What Does Gifted Mean? Personal and Social Identity Perspectives
on Giftedness in Adolescence
—Frank C. Worrell
IV. Adulthood and the Later Years
Developmental Transitions in Giftedness and Talent: Adolescence
Into Adulthood
—Rena F. Subotnik
Gifts and Talents of Elderly People: The Persimmon's
Promise
—James E. Birren
V. Life-Span Perspectives: Understandings and
Implications
Developmental Science and Giftedness: An Integrated Life-Span
Framework
—Daniel P. Keating
A Developmental Perspective on Giftedness and Talent:
Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice
—Dona J. Matthews, Rena F. Subotnik, and Frances Degen Horowitz
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors
Frances Degen Horowitz, PhD, is a professor and president
emerita at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA),
and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science. A developmental psychologist, she is the author of more
than 130 articles, monographs, and books in the field of child
development, with an emphasis on infant behavior and development
and developmental theory. Among numerous leadership positions in
the field of psychology and child development, she has served as
president of the Society for Research and Child Development and
president of APA's Division 7 (Developmental Psychology). She
coedited, with Marion O'Brien, the book The Gifted and Talented:
Developmental Perspectives (1985), and she was an editor of the
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Rena F. Subotnik, PhD, is the director of the Center for
Gifted Education Policy at the American Psychological Association.
The center's mission is to generate public awareness, advocacy,
clinical applications, and cutting-edge research ideas that will
enhance the achievement and performance of children and adolescents
with special gifts and talents in all domains (including academic
disciplines, performing arts, sports, and professions).
She is a coeditor of an upcoming series titled Levers of Change and
has a volume in preparation with APA Books titled Methodologies for
Conducting Research on Giftedness. She has also coedited Optimizing
Student Success in School With the Other Three R's: Reasoning,
Resilience, and Responsibility (2006); The Scientific Basis of
Educational Productivity (2006); International Handbook of
Giftedness and Talent (2nd ed., 2002); Remarkable Women:
Perspectives on Female Talent Development (1995); and Beyond
Terman: Contemporary Longitudinal Studies of Giftedness and Talent
(1994). She is also the primary author of Genius Revisited: High IQ
Children Grown Up (1993).
Dona J. Matthews, PhD, has been teaching, writing,
counseling, consulting, and conducting research on gifted
development and education since 1985. From 2003 to 2007, she was
the director of the Center for Gifted Studies and Education at
Hunter College, The City University of New York, where she worked
with New York City (NYC) teachers and the NYC Department of
Education on policies and practices relating to giftedness. She is
currently a visiting professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies
in Education, engaged in several writing projects and working with
families and schools on issues relating to gifted education. In
addition to dozens of journal articles, she is a coauthor of Being
Smart About Gifted Children: A Guidebook for Parents and Educators
(2005) and coeditor of the Routledge International Companion to
Gifted Education (2009).
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