Parenting the Gifted: Balancing a Culture of Distraction with Guided Attention for Gifted Exploration and Reflection

Autor/in	Haensly, Patricia
Titel	Parenting the Gifted: Balancing a Culture of Distraction with Guided Attention for Gifted Exploration and Reflection
Quelle	In: Gifted Child Today, 26 (2003) 4, S.30-33 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1076-2175
Schlagwörter	Gifted; Child Psychology; Academic Discourse; Attention; Child Development; Adolescents; Educational Environment; Active Learning; Reflective Teaching; Guidance; Book Reviews; Parent Participation; Teaching Methods; Teacher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Begabter, Hoch Begabter; Kinderpsychologie; Discourse; Diskurs; Aufmerksamkeit; Kindesentwicklung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Aktives Lernen; Beratung; Book reviewing; Book review; Rezension; Elternmitwirkung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung
Abstract	Looking for relevant material for the Adolescent Psychology course she teaches, the author's attention was drawn to a book by Thomas Cottle, "Mind Fields: Adolescent Consciousness in a Culture of Distraction" (2001). Robert Frost's quotation, "Grant me intention, purpose, and design--That's near enough for me to the Divine," in the frontispiece seemed so relevant to the topic she intended to develop in this article, and is stated with so much elegance, that she could not resist using it to initiate an exploration of the roles of "distraction", "attention", "exploration", and "reflection" in attempts, as both parents and teachers, to foster the development of gifted potential in their children. In this article, the author suggests that parents and teachers can balance a culture of distraction: by suggesting appropriate levels of attention at appropriate times; by guiding exploration of the increasingly enriched sources available; and by prompting and participating in gifted reflection about the exciting outcomes of their exploration. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10