Exceptionality in East Asia : explorations in the actiotope model of giftedness

Exceptionality in East Asia : explorations in the actiotope model of giftedness / edited by Shane N. Phillipson, Heidrun Stoeger, Albert Ziegler.

The continual successes of students from East-Asia are confirmed in a variety of international tests of academic achievement and yet, despite this attainment, many scholars have realised that a substantial proportion of these students are also underachieving.? Using the actiotope model of giftedness...

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Other Authors: Phillipson, Shane N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
Subjects:
Gifted children > Education > East Asia.
EDUCATION > General.
EDUCATION > Special Education > Gifted.
EDUCATION > Research.
Gifted children > Education
East Asia
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Exceptionality in East Asia; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword by Kurt A. Heller; Preface; 1. The actiotope model of giftedness: an introduction to some central theoretical assumptions: Albert Ziegler, Wilma Vialle and Bastian Wimmer; 2. Talent development as adaptation: the role of educational and learning capital: Albert Ziegler and Joseph Baker; 3. Confucianism, learning self-concept and the development of exceptionality: Shane N. Phillipson.
  • 4. Pathways to artistic giftedness: developmental theory as a complement to the actiotope model of giftedness: Marion Porath5. Chinese students and mathematical problem solving: an application of the actiotope model of giftedness: Rosemary Callingham; 6. Intelligence and academic achievement
  • with a focus on the actiotope model of giftedness: Aljoscha Neubauer; 7. Goal orientations and the development of subjective action space in Chinese students: Rebecca Wing-yi Cheng and Shane N. Phillipson.
  • 8. Social-emotional development of Chinese gifted students: a review based within the actiotope model of giftedness: Mantak Yuen and Ricci W. Fong9. The "Tiger Mother" factor: curriculum, schooling and mentoring of Asian students in an Australian context: Wilma Vialle; 10. Parental involvement within the actiotope model of giftedness: what it means for East-Asian students: Sivanes Phillipson and Sin Yin Janet Yick; 11. Support-oriented identification of gifted students in East Asia according to the actiotope model of giftedness: Heidrun Stoeger.
  • 12. Twice-exceptional students with deafness or hard-of-hearing and giftedness: Kevin C.P. Yuen13. Gifted education policy and the development of exceptionality: a Hong Kong perspective: Stephen D. Tommis and Shane N. Phillipson; 14. The gifted and talented and effective learning: a focus on the actiotope model of giftedness in the Asian context: Dennis M. Mcinerney; Index.

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