Gifts, talents and education : a living theory approach / Barry Hymer, Jack Whitehead and Marie Huxtable.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hymer, Barry.

Contributor:

Whitehead, Jack.

Huxtable, Marie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gifted children--Education.

Gifted children.

Gifted children--Education--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gifts, Talents and Education: A Living Theory Approach is a practical guide for teachers on how to help all their pupils to enhance their gifts and talents in the classroom. Examples reveal how teachers can transform the way education is understood in schools, by relating stories of how they learned about their own gifts and talents. The book explains recent key developments in multimedia representations of social and emotional aspects of learning. These permit the multi-sensory gifts and talents of individual learners to be recognised and developed within a process that enhances t

Contents:

Gifts, Talents and Education a Living Theory Approach; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: WHAT'S IMPLICIT IN 20TH CENTURY NOTIONS OF GIFTEDNESS? WHY ARE THESE NOTIONS UNFIT FOR PURPOSE IN THE 21ST CENTURY?; CHAPTER 2: BEYOND DEFINITIONS AND IDENTIFICATION - A GENERATIVE-TRANSFORMATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR GIFT CREATION; GENERATIVE-TRANSFORMATIONAL (G-T ); CONTRADICTORY/DIALECTICAL (C); RELATIONAL (RE); ACTIVITY-ORIENTED (A); TEMPORAL/SOCIAL (TE)

CHAPTER 3: GIFTEDNESS AS A LIVING CONCEPT: WHAT IS A LIVING THEORY APPROACH TO ACTION RESEARCH AND HOW CAN IT CONTRIBUTE TO GIFT CREATION THROUGH STUDENT-LED ENQUIRY?ACTION PLANNING IN CREATING YOUR LIVING EDUCATIONAL THEORY: EXPLORING THE IMPLICATIONS OF ASKING, RESEARCHING AND ANSWERING 'HOW DO I IMPROVE WHAT I AM DOING?'; Margaret Cahill (2007) My Living Educational Theory of Inclusional Practice. http://www.jeanmcniff.com/margaretcahill/index.html

Mairin M. Glenn (2006) Working with Collaborative Projects: My Living Theory of a Holistic Educational Practice. http://www.jeanmcniff.com/glennabstract.htmlMary Roche (2007) Towards a Living Theory of Caring Pedagogy: Interrogating My Practice to Nurture a Critical, Emancipatory and Just Community of Enquiry. http://www.jeanmcniff.com/MaryRoche/index.html; Bernie Sullivan (2006) A Living Theory of a Practice of Social Justice: Realising the Right of Traveller Children to Educational Equality. http://www.jeanmcniff.com/bernieabstract.html

Margaret Follows (2006) Looking for a Fairer Assessment of Children's Learning, Development and Attainment in the Infant Years: an Educational Action Research Case Study. http://www.jackwhitehead.com/followsphd/followsphd7livth.pdfSwaroop Rawal (2006) The Role of Drama in Enhancing Life Skills in Children with Specific Learning Difficulties in a Mumbai School: My Reflective Account. Graduated from Coventry University in Collaboration with the University of Worcester.

Mike Bosher (2001) How Can I as an Educator and Professional Development Manager Working with Teachers, Support and Enhance the Learning and Achievement of Pupils in a Whole School Improvement Process? http://www.actionresearch.net/bosher.shtmlJohn Loftus (1999) An Action Research Enquiry into the Marketing of an Established First School in Its Transition to Full Primary Status. http://www.actionresearch.net/loftus.shtml; Eleanor Lohr (2004) Love at Work: What Is My Lived Experience of Love, and How May I Become an Instrument of Love's Purpose? http://www.actionresearch.net/lohr.shtml

Madeline Church (2004) Creating an Uncompromised Place to Belong: Why Do I Find Myself in Networks? http://www.actionresearch.net/church.shtml

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-178) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613203519

9781283203517

1283203510

9780470715697

0470715693

9780470715680

0470715685

OCLC:

437234443