This comprehensive new handbook offers insight into the knowledge and experience needed to meet the needs of Europe’s high-ability students. Tracking all the major developments in the field and covering a large scope of topics, this book is a major addition to the literature on gifted education in Europe.
Written by international experts, chapters cover theories and conceptions of giftedness and talent, ways of identifying talent in different domains; Languages, STEM, Creativity and problem solving, and non-academic talents like music and sports. Special attention is paid for social, emotional, and motivational development and talent for special groups: high-ability people with other challenges, like ASD or ADHD, women, LGBTQ+, adults, minorities and people with a lower socio-economic background. This book also touches on European research and practice networks designed to support those working in the field of gifted education and mental health care.
The European Handbook of Gifted Education and Talent Development is essential reading for educators, researchers, psychologists and anyone interested in gifted education in Europe.
Part 1: Giftedness and Talent Development in Europe – A historical overview 1. Gifted education in Europe, past, present and future 2. Overview of conceptual models 3. The Systemic Perspective on Giftedness 4. Talent Development in Achievement Domains: A Psychological Perspective 5. Perspectives on Expertise Development 6. Giftedness identification and neurosciences 7. Gifted Underachievement: An Individualized and Contextualized Dynamic Developmental Process Part 3: Identification of Giftedness and Talent 8. Giftedness and the measurement of cognitive ability 9. Talent Identification by Checklists 10. Dynamic Assessment 11. Broadening the Identification Process of Giftedness and Talent 12. Getting it right from the start: The Importance of Early Years for Talent Identification and Development Part 4: Talent Development Domains 13. Reading and Language 14. Mathematical Giftedness 15. Cultivating high creative potential 16. Research and Education with a focus on Musical Giftedness and Musical Talent Development in Europe 17. Talent Identification and Development in Sports Part 5: Gifted education - Developing Talent 18. Self-regulated learning in gifted education: Strategies of self-regulated learning in gifted education and talent development 19. Enrichment 20. Ability Grouping 21. Teachers and Gifted Students 22. Developing Talent Through Online Learning 23. Mentoring for Individualized Talent Support: Developmental Background and Practical Implementation Part 6: Social emotional and motivational development and Talent 24. Self-Concept, Mental Health, and Well-Being of High Ability Youth 25. Social development and peer relations 26. The Gift of Positive Psychology: Exploring the Relationship Between Positive Psychology and Gifted Education 27. Motivational interventions for cognitively gifted students Part 7: Special groups 28. A Systematic Review of Twice-Exceptionality Research: What Three Decades of Research Tell us 29. Underrepresentation of women in STEM in gifted education 30. Gifted LGBTQ Students 31. Gifted Adults 32. Equity in gifted education 33. Gifted learners from socio-economic disadvantage: Case studies from Ireland and Scotland Part 8: Research and practice networks in Europe 34. The Network Approach to Talent Development: The European Talent Support Network 35. The Role of Parents and Parent Associations in Gifted Education 36. University based programmes for gifted students 37, Bridging Research and Educational Practice and Policy: The Talent Project in Flanders
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