Morality, Ethics, and Gifted Minds [Hardcover]

Don Ambrose (Editor), Tracy Cross (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0387893679 | ISBN-13: 978-0387893679 | Publication Date: March 19, 2009 | Edition: 1

Morality, Ethics and Gifted Minds explores much of the current wisdom on ethics and morality while developing new perspectives on the ethical dimensions of high ability. Prominent authors from diverse disciplines are brought together, recognizing that no single discipline can capture the essence and entirety of nettlesome, complex, multidimensional moral issues. More specifically, the book explores new dimensions of ethics and morality; magnifies the importance of applying highly intelligent minds to ethical issues while developing ways to strengthen the ethical awareness of the creative and gifted, and brings diverse, interdisciplinary perspectives to bear on these issues.

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From the Back Cover

Morality, Ethics, and Gifted Minds brings together the leading thinkers from diverse scholarly fields to share and integrate their perspectives on morality and high ability (giftedness, talent, creativity). These two broad areas of inquiry should have much more overlap and interconnection than currently exists.   One of the many justifications for such connection making is the pressing need for the application of intelligent, creative minds to the many ethical dilemmas facing the world today. Another is the troubling propensity for some of the most creative, gifted people to generate or catalyze those ethical dilemmas. Along with many other leading authorities, most of the authors contributing to this book frequently lament the lack of wise analysis and problem solving in education and in attempts to grapple with moral issues in today's complex, socioeconomic, political, and cultural arenas. This book explores much of the current wisdom on ethics and morality while developing new perspectives on the ethical dimensions of high ability. Prominent authors from diverse disciplines are brought together, recognizing that no single discipline can capture the essence and entirety of nettlesome, complex, multidimensional moral issues. More specifically, the book explores new dimensions of ethics and morality; magnifies the importance of applying highly intelligent minds to ethical issues while developing ways to strengthen the ethical awareness of the creative and gifted, and brings diverse, interdisciplinary perspectives to bear on these issues. Morality, Ethics, and Gifted Minds will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the fields of gifted education, creative studies, and general education.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 385 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (March 19, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387893679
• ISBN-13: 978-0387893679
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,735,700 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Don Ambrose, PhD, is an interdisciplinary scholar who investigates influences on high ability (giftedness, creativity, intelligence, talent). Author of several books and many academic articles, and editor of an international academic journal, most of his research and writing aims at expanding our notions of human potential. The following questions, derived from one of his recent books, illustrate some intriguing ways in which these investigations can make us think more broadly and insightfully about who we are and what we do: Can gifted leaders and intelligent citizens erode their own rationality and do harm in the world by falling prey to periodic resurgences of emotion-drenched, aggressive romanticism? How does giftedness "change" when developed nations worldwide shift from modern-materialist to postmodern-postmaterialist values? How does allocating most of an industry's rewards to a few superstars create talent imbalances in other arenas of human endeavor? Can creative problem solvers create many more problems when they try to do just one thing in a system?