Reviews for Conducting Research and Evaluation in Gifted Education

The average rating for Conducting Research and Evaluation in Gifted Education based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-05-06 00:00:00 William Tew Written in the detached and synoptic style of a dissertation with occasional biting remarks, this is an interesting book that examines the occult literary substratum underneath aesthetic theories in France, expounding on their musical component. From the eve of the Revolution to 20th-century Modernism, enduring Pythagoreo-Platonic ideas provided the grounds for innovation in a number of disciplines by keeping them bound together in a way that allowed creative extrapolations from one to the other; "unity of the arts" is a theme treated extensively in this book, complete with genealogies and meticulous archival documentation. Reading through the text, I couldn't help sensing a perpetual pun against 20th-century structuralist thinking, at least when applied to anything outside its own intellectual domain. In spite of its allegedly obscure material, the language of the book is clear and everything is presented in a concise, analytic manner; all of the content is easily accessible to anyone with a background in art history and a basic understanding of musical notation, algebra, calculus and Euclidean geometry. The annex contains a number of rare to find partitions to illustrate how abstract theories always face the challenge of exposure to practice. As a whole, I enjoyed reading this book and I would recommend it to anyone trying to understand subliminal connections in various forms of 18th to 20th century art, music, architecture and literature.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-01-20 00:00:00 Martin Cortez Jr. Godwin has an uncanny knack for writing about very interesting subjects and still managing to be boring. This book mainly goes into how French composers in the 1700's were encoding Pythagorian/Rosicrucian/Alchemical symbology/magic into the music they were creating. Some of the historical stuff was interesting but maybe its because I'm neither a musician or a Pythagorian occultist when he got into deep specifics and the technical side of what these guys were doing I was bored out of my mind.