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More than a quarter of a century ago, Joan Freeman began this study of 210 children, comparing the recognized gifted, the unrecognized gifted and their classmates. This book: describes what happened to them and their families as they grew up and coped with their different circumstances. It also looks at the problems they faced, often described in their own words and contains personal details from in-depth interviews in homes and schools all over Britain, which are at times startling and sometimes depressing. It lays to rest many myths about the development of gifted children.
The book offers insights into the special situations of the gifted and points out much needed changes in their care and education. It is not only important for their own fulfillment and happiness, but for the future of society.
The book offers insights into the special situations of the gifted and points out much needed changes in their care and education. It is not only important for their own fulfillment and happiness, but for the future of society.
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Prof. Joan Freeman is a distinguished psychologist, internationally known and respected for her work in the area of gifted development. She is Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, London, a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and Founding President of the European Council for High Ability (ECHA).
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Smug, Non-Factual
14 Aug 2003
Format:Paperback
I expected to read a book of the calibre published by Dr. Freeman's American rival, Dr. Silverman. I was horribly dissapointed. This book is short, dry and non-compassionate. There is a particularly smug character to it that I found offensive. Adding to this is contradiction - Dr. Freeman believes there is no such thing as Gifted people, but she writes a book on them. Forgive my confusion. I strongly advise anyone interested in the Gifted to look elsewhere.
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Rare Book on Giftedness Based on Scientific Research
11 Dec 2003
Format:Paperback
I had the privilege of meeting the author of this book at her invited talk at the Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) conference in suburban Minneapolis, MN in 2002. What a breath of fresh air! Freeman, whose articles on the development of gifted young people are in all the better anthologies on giftedness, used a rare research design with two control groups--a group of gifted young people (by IQ test) who were not identified as gifted, and a group of matched controls not selected by IQ. This experimental design ought to be used more often in studies of giftedness in the United States. Freeman has also followed her subjects more closely, and for longer, than most other current authors of books on gifted childen as they grow up. I can tell from meeting her that she is very intelligent herself, and her book makes a great contribution to the literature, refuting the mythology found in many other books on the subject. Freeman's book is definitely worth reading for any parent of an identified gifted child.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Silly
20 Sep 2003
Format:Paperback
Half-way through the book, I had to remind myself what it was supposed to be about.
As a teacher, I am very concerned about the gifted youth in our world. I was dismayed to see Freeman was more interested in promoting herself, than promoting the gifted. Sometimes, she seemed to have consistent idea about giftedness, while other times in the book, and in most of her other work, she does not accept giftedness exists. She advocates peculiar ideas about working with gifted children. One is called the "Sports Approach," which, in her convoluted reasoning, will turn her abstractly-defined and supposedly docile gifted kids into David Bekhams. For the PG child, the "Sports Approach" is degrading and wasteful.
People I know have contacted her and found this attitude to be her main strength. Considering the work done in America on the gifted, it is unfortunate that Britain lags so far behind.
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