Giftedness and Talent

Roger Moltzen is an Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Prior to becoming an academic, he was a school teacher and principal. His previous roles at the University of Waikato include foundation chair of the Department of Human Development and Counselling, and Faculty Dean. He is the immediate past Chair of the New Zealand Council of Deans of Education. Roger has held visiting professorships at universities in the United States, England and Israel. His research and publications are in the areas of inclusive education, talent development, and tertiary teaching and learning. In 2005 he received the New Zealand Prime Ministers Supreme Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award. Roger continues to teach and supervise at the University of Waikato as well as holding a number of national and international advisory and consultancy positions. Nadine Ballam is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her PhD research explored the lived experiences of gifted young people from low socio-economic backgrounds, an area of gifted education that she is passionate about continuing to explore. She also has an interest in risk and resilience, current issues in gifted education, and giftedness across the lifespan. Nadine is on the board of giftEDnz: The Professional Association for Gifted Education in New Zealand. She is also an Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Gifted Education (AJGE). Nadine teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students in the area of gifted and talented education, and supervises postgraduate research. She publishes and presents regularly on aspects of giftedness and talent at national and international conferences.

1 Introduction to Giftedness and Talent: Australasian.- 2 Risk and Resilience in Gifted Young People from Low Socio-economic Backgrounds.- 3 Young Talented Readers: The Interaction and Engagement of Metacognition during Critical Literacy Discourse.- 4 Gifted Young Adolescents: The Synergy of Self.- 5 Group Support for Parents of Gifted Children in the Western Region of Melbourne, Australia.- "Put Your Seatbelt On, Here We Go": The Transition to School for Children Identified as Gifted.- 7 Academic Success among a Cohort of Gifted and Talented Mori and Pasifika Secondary School Boys: Elements Contributing to their Achievement.- 8 The Big-fish-little-pond Effect: Self-concepts of Gifted Students in a Part-time Gifted Programme.- 9 Gifted and Talented Adolescents' Experiences of School in Aotearoa in New Zealand.- 10 Spirituality and Giftedness Type: A Tale of Adolescent Variance.- 11 Full-year Acceleration of Gifted High School Students: A 360 View.- 12 The Role of Racial-ethnic Identity to the Educational Engagement of Culturally Diverse Gifted New Zealand Adolescents.- 13 Supporting the Development of Academic Talent: The Perspectives of Students, Parents and Teachers.- 14 Smart Girls in the Media: The Impact of Popular Culture on the Development of Adolescent Rural Gifted Girls' Identity and Subsequent Talent Development.- 15 An Enigma: Barriers to the Identification of Students who are Gifted with a Learning Disability.