Nurturing the Gifted Female: A Guide for Educators and Parents / Edition 1

by Joy Navan

Overview

Research shows that gifted girls, in general, are underserved and their talents underidentified. This insightful resource helps educators discover and strengthen gifted female students' potential and promote their healthy intellectual, psychological, and emotional growth.

Each chapter examines a different aspect of female development, provides a reflective exercise for applying the material to professional practice, and presents helpful strategies for teachers, counselors, and parents. The book covers Psychological and emotional characteristics of giftedness, Cognitive, behavioral, and environmental factors affecting gifted girls' development, Issues of resilience, self-efficacy, self-agency, and personal ethics, The importance of supportive teacher interventions and parent advocacy

This vital guide also includes appendices of mentoring programs, curriculum enhancers, Web resources, and research on the importance of fostering female gifted education, giving voice to gifted females and their unique developmental needs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412961370
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/12/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Joy L. Navan directs the Center for Gifted Studies at Murray State University in Kentucky, where she serves as an associate professor and program director for the graduate endorsement program in gifted and talented education. Navan is a certified practitioner of the Annemarie Roeper Method of Qualitative Assessment® and performs assessments in English and Spanish.

A teacher for 27 years, Navan spent many of them working with gifted students at the secondary level. During that time, she also served as an adjunct instructor at St. Lawrence University, where she taught a course in the methods of teaching second languages and supervised student teachers. With almost four decades in the field of education, she has developed curriculum and monographs for gifted and general education, and published numerous scholarly articles nationally and internationally. Fluent in Spanish, she initiated and directs an exchange program with gifted American and Spanish students and currently coordinates an online gifted and talented certificate program in Spanish. She served on the Kentucky Advisory Council for Gifted and Talented Education, is a member and past board member of the Kentucky Association for Gifted Education and serves on the board of the Kentucky Odyssey of the Mind. Navan is a member of the National Association for Gifted Children and the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children. She is an active member of Phi Delta Kappa International, an honorary association of professional educators.

Navan earned her Ph D from the University of Ottawa, Canada, where she studied under Janice Leroux, and assisted her in researching the lives of eminent women.

Table of Contents

Foreword     vii
Preface     x
Acknowledgments     xiii
About the Author     xiv
Introduction: Gifted Voices     1
Giftedness: A Qualitative Difference     7
The Gifted Female     19
Voice     27
The Resilient Self     40
Autonomy and Affiliation     53
Achieving Efficacy     65
Agency: The Destination     77
Conclusion: A Celebration of the Female Spirit     86
Annotated Resources     93
The Voices: Participants on the Journey     112
Learning Log Template     120
References     121
Index     124

Editorial Reviews

"A nice addition to the literature on gifted youth. It cites a growing concern over the disengagement of young gifted girls and offers realistic strategies to support and nurture them throughout their educational career."

Richard M. Cash

"Theexamples through stories are a major strength. I hope this book inspires teachers to see the giftedness in all children, nurture their voices, and help them develop to their fullest potential."

Rosemary Traoré

Navan’s insightful description and analysis of giftedness provides those of us who teach, mentor, and parent girls and young women with a road map to recognize and support their achievement and development. The stories, whichdescribe girls and young women from a variety of backgrounds, are a pleasure to read.

Renee Campoy