xxxv, 455 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Foreword / Leonie Kronborg -- Introduction. A developing research culture / Wilma Vialle and John Geake -- Section 1. Pedagogy and Curriculum -- 1.1. Teaching primary school students talented in mathematics / Neil Hall -- 1.2. A qualitative assessment of gifted and talented students undertaking rese...

Section 2. Policy and Practice -- 2.1. The reality of opportunities for gifted and talented students / Jill Forster -- 2.2. Enrusing identification of disadvantaged and culturally diverse gifted students in Queensland / Kay L. Gibson.

Section 3. Social and Emotional Needs -- 3.1. Threats to gifted and talented students' self-concepts in the big pond: research results and education implications / Rhonda G. Craven and Herbert W. Marsh -- 3.2. How ability grouping turns big fish into little fish, or does it? Of optical illusions and...

Section 4. School and Family -- 4.1. The attitudes of Catholic primary school teachers towards educational provisions for gifted talented and students / Susen R. Smith and Lorna K.S. Chan -- 4.2. How do preservice teachers view gifted students? Evidence from a NSW study / Neil G. Carrington and Stan...

Section 5. Neuropsychology and Cognition: 5.1. Neuroscientific research findings and their potential application to gifted education practice / Michael O'Boyle -- 5.2. Thinking as evolution in the brain: implications for giftedness / John Geake -- 5.3. A proposed model describing the realisation of...

Section 6. Special Populations -- 6.1. Aboriginal students succeeding in the senior high school years: a strengthening and changing aboriginality challenges the negative stereotype / Alan Day -- 6.2. Constructing a curriculum plan for gifted students in small rural schools / Janet Varley and Wilma V...