Diversity in gifted education : international perspectives by Gillian Eriksson, Belle Wallace

By Gillian Eriksson, Belle Wallace

This well timed booklet brings jointly specialists from around the globe to proportion services and most sensible perform to shape an eclectic selection of the easiest methods for instructing proficient and talented children from various cultures. each one bankruptcy:

  • presents an summary of foreign views at the problems with multi-cultural and talented education
  • examines the severe matters concerning cultural definitions of giftedness in programming for various proficient students
  • presents neighborhood case experiences for you to tell practitioners' most sensible practice
  • examines problems with entry for presented scholars relating to tradition, poverty, race and gender.

In addition, information of web sites and institutions which provide help and recommendation also are supplied, making this publication a useful source for lecturers, researchers, lecturers and fogeys of proficient and proficient children.

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The concept ‘reflection’ (Schön 1987) has its roots in education, whereas the term ‘metacognition’ (Sternberg 1999) stems from cognitive psychology. This chapter will redefine the core of both concepts within a framework of DIGC01 20 24/11/05, 3:29 PM Cognition and underachievement 21 information-processing, and will seek to integrate both concepts (Anderson 1993; Estes 1999; Sternberg 1999). Underlying concepts necessary to understanding reflection and metacognition Cognition and consciousness Originally, ‘cognition’ referred to processes, such as perception, memory, thinking, intelligence and imagery, and excluded emotions such as motivation and psycho-physical areas such as sensitivity thresholds.

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