Gifted Children : Myths And Realities - 96 edition

Winner, Ellen : Boston College

Ellen Winner is professor of psychology at Boston College and senior research associate at Harvard Project Zero. She is the author of Invented Worlds: The Psychology of the Arts, and The Point of Words: Children's Understanding of Metaphor and Irony.

"Explains clearly and engagingly the many forces that shape the lives and minds of those at the far end of the bell curve."

--Education Week

"A great book. I've read other books of this kind, but this is one of the best because the points are clear and, most importantly, I believe they are correct. Ellen Winner has done a first-rate job of talking sense and of backing it up."

--Robert J. Sternberg, Department of Psychology, Yale University

"With this book, Ellen Winner brings clarity, scholarship, and refreshing common sense to the contested field of talent development. This enormously enjoyable volume provides an indispensable benchmark to teachers, parents, and researchers interested in the ontogenesis of superior ability."

--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Committee on Human Development, The University of Chicago

"This is an important, challenging, and readable book. For too long, scientists have tried to learn about human abilities by studying undergraduates or the diseased. This book restores the balance and gives us a new way of looking at human abilities, by studying people with exceptional gifts. This book is a gift to all of us. It can be read by all, and should be!"

--Robert Ornstein, author of The Psychology of Consciousness

"A fresh perspective on the nature of giftedness by challenging nine common misconceptions. It is punctuated with fascinating case studies of gifted children."

--Joseph S. Renzulli, National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented

"A fascinating, wonderful and important book about children with quite remarkable minds, abilities, and temperaments. Replaces myth with scholarship in a manner that is both lucid and engaging."

--Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind

"Using vivid case studies, Winner paints a complex picture of the gifted child."

--M. Klatte, Choice

"A thoughtful and thorough book regarding gifted children, which combines detailed case descriptions and a discussion of the latest research."

--Randy Hagerman, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association

Perseus Books Group Web Site, March, 2000

Nine Myths About Giftedness
Globally Gifted: The Children Behind the Myth
Unevenly Gifted, Even Learning Disabled
Artistic and Musical Children
The IQ Myth
The Biology of Giftedness
Giftedness and the Family
So Different from Others: The Emotional Life of the Gifted Child
Schools: How They Fail, How They Could Help
What Happens to Gifted Children When They Grow Up?
Sorting Myth from Reality