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Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health (Creativity Research)
by Mark A. Runco (Editor)
- Ruth Richards (Editor)
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Helping Gifted Children Soar - Book
Review
Dateline: 2/3/02
by Ruth Richards
Helping Gifted Children Soar : A Practical
Guide for Parents and Teachers
by Carol Strip, with Gretchen Hirsch
Gifted Psychology Press, 2000
Very readable, well-organized, practical, on everything from
dealing with pros and cons of special talents in the kids to
responses that aren't always supportive in the teachers, to advocating
for one's child. Actual suggestions of what to say and do are
excellent.
However, my main problem with this book speaking as
someone who has done research on "everyday creativity"
for over 25 years is that, on the one hand, the list of
gifted and talented qualities speak very much to self-motivated
and highly creative, innovative, youth. This is an underidentified
and often frustrated group in our mainstream public schools.
However, the usual school means of identifying the gifted involves
IQ and standardized testing. Creativity research shows only small
correlations between these tests (past a threshold) and degree
of notable creative accomplishment.
It is worth being up front about some of the limitations of
this testing, and what in fact is often done by the schools (our
district talks about the "talented" but is so far just
going by the testing). This misidentification of talent, and
miscasting of creativity, is a critical reality that needs addressing!
Otherwise, a terrific book!
Best, Ruth
Ruth Richards, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Saybrook Graduate School
Associate Clinical Professor, Dept.
of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
Research Affiliate, McLean
Hospital, Belmont, MA
Lecturer, Dept.
of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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- Resources for Homeschooling Gifted
Kids, from Amazon.com
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- Helping Gifted Children Soar : A Practical
Guide for Parents and Teachers
by Carol Ann Strip, Gretchen Hirsch (Contributor)
The wide range of topics covered by this book is stunning ...
the physical, social, intellectual, and emotional aspects of
the gifted child. 2000 Paperback
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- The Call to Brilliance: A True Story to Inspire
Parents and Educators
- by Resa Steindel Brown, William Glasser, and Joseph Chilton
Pearce.
- Resa Steindel Brown has been uncovering the brilliance in
children for over thirty-five years. She homeschooled her own
three children from kindergarten into college.
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