Developing Talent Across the Lifespan Book

	List of Contributors	xi
	Acknowledgement	xiii
	Introduction	xiv
Part 1	Conceptual perspectives on the development of talent
1.	Developmental theory and the expression of gifts and talents	3
	Introduction	3
	The need for a framework to guide research and practice	6
	Towards a framework for the study of giftedness and talent	7
	The universal to unique continuum	8
	The development of gifts and talents	10
	The evolution of gifts and talents	12
	Conclusion	14
2.	Slumbering talents: Where do they reside?	17
	Introduction	17
	Talents as hidden core: Preformism and unwanted dichotomies	20
	Development and the organism--environment system	23
	The significance of the environment for an organism's developing capabilities	28
	Enhancement of capabilities to act by tool use	32
	Conclusion	38
Part 2	Intellectual giftedness
3.	Successful intelligence: A unified view of giftedness	43
	The concept of successful intelligence	44
	Components of successful intelligence	47
	Putting together the three aspects of successful intelligence	58
	Acknowledgement	62
4.	The role of intelligence as a major determinant of a successful occupational life	67
	Introduction	67
	The GOLD study: Method	76
	Results	82
	General discussion and concluding remarks	92
Part 3	Specific talents: Personality, morality, emotionality, academic achievement, and art
5.	The gifted personality: Resilient children and adolescents, their adjustment and their relationships	103
	Different approaches to personality	104
	Resilience across the primary school years	106
	Resilient adolescents	108
	Subtypes of resilient children and adolescents	109
	Agentic and communal resilients, perceived support, and sociometric status	115
	Boys versus girls	119
	Conclusions	121
6.	The morality paradox: Choosing not to be moral as a component of moral excellence	125
	Introduction	125
	The nature of morality	126
	Moral excellence	127
	The case of R	133
	The hazards of untamed moral commitment	140
	In search of moral excellence: Beyond the fusion of goals	142
	Acknowledgements	147
7.	Talent for development: Responding to contextual promises	151
	Introduction	151
	The developmental nexus and its dependence on symbolic structures	154
	The developmental nexus	154
	Young Marc making a developmental opportunity come true	158
	Concluding observations	164
8.	Successful achievement in mathematics: China and the United States	167
	Introduction	167
	Academic achievement in China	168
	High achievers in China and the United States	172
	Conclusions	181
9.	It's (im)possible to become a genius! The development of drawing	185
	Introduction	185
	A short survey about drawing	185
	The documentation of children's drawings	186
	The development of drawing: Three individual case studies	188
	Development and talent	198
	Acknowledgements	198
Part 4	Supporting the development of talent
10.	Gifted infants: What kinds of support do they need?	203
	The role of experience in the development of talents	203
	A supportive environment for gifted infants is one that fosters competence motivation	205
	Quality of support provided by parents	209
	Quality of parental support and achievement of excellence in Surinamese-Dutch infants	211
	Conclusions: Back to the beginning	224
11.	Teaching for talent: Lessons from the research	231
	Problems of definitions	231
	Some specific research concerns	233
	How the talented are different	236
	Educating for the development of talent	238
	Current trends in developing talent	241
	Conclusions	244
12.	The Juilliard model for developing young adolescent performers: An educational prototype	249
	Introduction: The Juilliard School	249
	Structure of the study	251
	Explicit talent-development variables	252
	More implicit talent-development variables	260
	Conclusions	273
	Note	275
13.	Talent and self-narrative: The survival of an underachieving adolescent	277
	The temporal organisation of self-narrative	278
	Valuation theory: Self as an organised process	280
	The self-confrontation method: Affective organisation of meaning units	282
	Leo's story: From the cold road to the road of fire	287
	The relevance of becoming aware of one's talent	294
	Acknowledgement	296
14.	Support for university students: Individual and social factors	299
	Introduction	299
	Current findings on research into talent and excellent performance in higher education	300
	The programme evaluation study: Method	306
	Results	311
	Discussion	315
	Author Index	323
	Subject Index	329