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Nurturing the Gifted Female

A Guide for Educators and Parents

By: Joy L. Navan

Foreword by Elizabeth A. Meckstroth

Discover research-based approaches that support the academic and personal development of gifted female students!

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

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412961370
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2008
Page Count: 144
Publication date: January 17, 2013

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"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, which describe girls and young women from a variety of backgrounds, are a pleasure to read."
—Renee Campoy, Interim Assistant Dean
College of Education, Murray State University

Discover research-based approaches that support the academic and personal development of gifted female students!

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.

Key features

Practical advice and ways to enhance "female voices" that will be outlined in bullets, steps, rubrics, etc.
Convincing vignettes and examples of many dilemmas that gifted girls undergo
Back appendices of mentoring programs, curriculum enhancers, and web resources aimed at further enrichment
Strong research on the importance to foster female gifted education

Author(s)

Joy L. Navan

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 PhD 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

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

1. Introduction: Gifted Voices

2. Giftedness: A Qualitative Difference

3. The Gifted Female

4. Voice

5. The Resilient Self

6. Autonomy and Affiliation

7. Achieving Efficacy

8. Agency: The Destination

9. Conclusion: A Celebration of the Female Spirit

Resources

Appendix A: The Voices: Participants on the Journey

Appendix B: Learning Log Template

References

Index

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, Director of Gifted and Talented Programs
Bloomington Public Schools, MN

"The examples 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, Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“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, which describe girls and young women from a variety of backgrounds, are a pleasure to read.”

Renee Campoy, Interim Assistant Dean
College of Education, Murray State University

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