Science education for gifted learners /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Taber, Keith
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Science education for gifted learners?
  • The characteristics of the gifted and exceptionally able in science
  • Gifted science learners with special educational needs
  • The emotional lives of fledgling geniuses
  • Opportunities for gifted science provision in the context of a learner-centred national curriculum
  • Developing the thinking of gifted students through science
  • Challenging able science learners through models and modelling
  • Challenging gifted learners through classroom dialogue
  • Asking questions in classroom science
  • Teaching controversial socio-scientific issues to gifted and talented students
  • Context-based science : a 'gift horse' for the talented?
  • Choice for the gifted : lessons from teaching about scientific explanations
  • Practical work for the gifted in science
  • Working together to provide enrichment for able science learners
  • Bringing learners and scientific expertise together
  • An agenda for science education for gifted learners.