| Description |
vii, 139 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
Prodigy or problem child? Challenges with identifying Aboriginal giftedness / Paul Chandler -- Indegenous conceptions of giftedness / Jill Bevan-Brown -- Identifying gifted knowledge and learning in indegenous cultures: Africa and Australia / John Munro -- Some Aboriginal perspectives on gifted and talented children and their schooling / Michael Christie -- Achievement integrated model: interventions for gifted Indigenous underachievers / Maria Bousnakis ... [et al.] -- Indentifying high academic potential in Australian Aboriginal children using dynamic testing / Graham W. Chaffey, Stan B. Nailey and Ken W. Vine -- Is gifted education a necessary ingredient in creating a level playing field for Indigenous children in education / Graham Chaffey -- Look to the past, stand tall in the present: the integral nature of positive racial-ethnic indentity for the academic success of Maori students / Melinda Webber -- Gifted and talented Maori and Pasifika students: issues in their indentification and program and pastoral provision / Graeme Miller -- Celebrating gifted indigenous roots: gifted and talented Pacific Island (Pasifika) students / Taemanuolo Faaea-Semeatu -- Talented and living on the wrong side of the tracks / Nadine Ballam |
| Summary |
One of the biggest challenges for the field of gifted education is to ensure that our identification procedures, programs, curriculum models, and educational practices are: supported by the best research evidence available; inclusive of all social and cultural groups; and respectful of different knowledge and belief systems |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
"This publication includes selected transcriptions and papers from the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Giftedness held in Sydney, NSW, Australia on 29 July-1 August 2010."--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Education.
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Exceptional children.
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Gifted children -- Australia.
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Gifted children -- Africa.
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Gifted children -- New Zealand.
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Special education.
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| Author |
Vialle, Wilma.
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Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented.
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Asia-Pacific Conference on Giftedness (11th : 2010 : Sydney, Australia)
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| ISBN |
9780980844818 (paperback) |
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