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This report is a contribution to Ellen Winner’s Festschrift from a very fond former student and collaborator. Ellen’s work has had a major impact on the fields of Psychology and Education by enhancing our understanding of giftedness, visual spatial abilities, the Arts, and metaphoric thought. I focus on the intersections of her work with mine specifically in the areas of giftedness and visual spatial talent in dyslexia. I also touch on some themes underlying her contributions to the field (i.e., myth busting) and her invaluable academic mentorship. One of the most important contributions Ellen has made to the field of giftedness is her synthesis and distillation of the research on the characteristics of gifted children. Ellen is a credit to the field of psychology. She is highly productive and her contributions, impressive. Her work not only advances the fields of Psychology and Education, but it also benefits her students and their students (her academic grandchildren). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
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It has been claimed that highly gifted children become aware of philosophical, ethical, societal, and environmental issues at an unusually young age. Hollingworth (1942) considered an early interest in what she called "questions of origin and destiny" to be a marker for giftedness (p. 279). According to Hollingworth, children develop such concerns when they reach the mental age of 12 or 13. Since Hollingworth's time, many have echoed her assertions. With few exceptions, these claims rest upon case studies and intuition. To determine whether highly gifted children show early issue awareness, a comparison of highly gifted and typical children was undertaken. Highly gifted 7- to 9-year-olds were compared to two control groups, one matched on age, the other made up of 12- to 13-year-olds. Three approaches were used to gather information about children's issue awareness: Parents rated children's issue awareness and children responded both to a structured interview and to drawings depicting environmental and human rights issues. Whereas children's responses provided mixed results, with responses to drawings revealing early issue awareness in the highly gifted more so than interview-based responses, parents' perceptions of children's issue awareness strongly supported the hypothesis that highly gifted children have early issue awareness. It is not clear whether these discrepancies reflect parental bias, measurement error, or as proposed here, the effect of differential parenting strategies. The speculation that parents observe highly gifted children's early issue awareness and respond by protecting them from exposure to issues is consistent with the pattern of results. Although results failed to support Hollingworth's assertion that issue awareness arises when children have reached the mental age of 12 or 13, taken together, results provide modest support for the hypothesis that highly gifted children do indeed have early issue awareness compared to agemates. No differences were found between highly gifted and typical children in terms of emotional intensity or altruistic nature of their responses to issues that they considered important. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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In this chapter, the authors focus on extreme giftedness--individuals whose potential and/or achievement are several standard deviations above the norm. The authors focus their attention on children because they are interested in early signs of giftedness and in how such atypical children are best identified, assessed, and educated. Gifted children stand out in four striking ways. They are precocious in their domain of ability; they are passionate about and have a rage to master that domain; they think, learn, and solve problems in ways that are qualitatively different from typical children; and they are aware of being different from others. Those four ways are discussed, along with a number of ways to identify and evaluate giftedness, and educating extremely gifted students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: create)
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