Talented Teenagers is a fascinating and absorbing examination of what makes adolescents tick: what roles personality traits, family interactions, education, and the social environment play in a young person's motivation to develop his or her talent. Vivid descriptions in the students' own words bring the material to life. Parents, teachers, psychologists, and counselors will find in these pages concrete information abou the conditions that foster the cultivation of mental abilities in adolescence, for both the gifted and the average student.
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'The most significant study of talent development to appear ... [in] almost a decade ... It is must reading for anyone wanting to grasp how the promise of youth converts to the triumphs of maturity.' Contemporary Psychology
'The result of an extensive five-year study, this pioneering book examines a group of gifted teenagers in an effort to understand the loss of motivation and diminution of talent that takes place during this troublesome period.' The Readers' Catalog Bulletin
'Written in a comprehensible reading style, the book is well organized with clear chapter summaries.' Choice
'Thorough and well documented, Talented Teens is particularly valuable in that its message is applicable to all teenagers, not just to those who are exceptionally talented.' Teacher Magazine
'For a society concerned about survival, no issue is more important than the cultivation of its talented young, no outcome more devastating than the loss of talented individuals. Once again Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his colleagues demonstrate that well-crafted social science can shed new light on such crucial issues.' Howard Gardner, Harvard University
'The result of an extensive five-year study, this pioneering book examines a group of gifted teenagers in an effort to understand the loss of motivation and diminution of talent that takes place during this troublesome period.' The Readers' Catalog Bulletin
'Written in a comprehensible reading style, the book is well organized with clear chapter summaries.' Choice
'Thorough and well documented, Talented Teens is particularly valuable in that its message is applicable to all teenagers, not just to those who are exceptionally talented.' Teacher Magazine
'For a society concerned about survival, no issue is more important than the cultivation of its talented young, no outcome more devastating than the loss of talented individuals. Once again Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his colleagues demonstrate that well-crafted social science can shed new light on such crucial issues.' Howard Gardner, Harvard University
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Talented Teenagers is a fascinating and absorbing examination of what makes adolescents tick: what roles personality traits, family interactions, education, and the social environment play in a young person's motivation to develop his or her talent. Vivid descriptions in the students' own words bring the material to life.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is professor and former chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. His previous books include Flow and The Evolving Self. Flow was shown on the 1993 NBC Super Bowl broadcast as the book that inspired Jimmy Johnson, then coach of the Dallas Cowboys. It was also a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Quality Paperback Book Club.
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mastery level codings, talented sample, talented teens, momentary involvement, uncommitted students, flow teachers, attentional structures, talented adolescents, talent area, average counterparts, average teens, subjective commitment, talent development, talented teenagers, differentiated families, talented males, average peers, gifted adolescents, experiential variables, family complexity, family integration, average adolescents, optimal experience, average teenagers, talent level Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Experience Sampling Method, United States, Combined Engagement, John Dewey, Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test, Benjamin Bloom New!
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The term talent is steeped in biblical origins. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mastery level codings, talented sample, talented teens, momentary involvement, uncommitted students, flow teachers, attentional structures, talented adolescents, talent area, average counterparts, average teens, subjective commitment, talent development, talented teenagers, differentiated families, talented males, average peers, gifted adolescents, experiential variables, family complexity, family integration, average adolescents, optimal experience, average teenagers, talent level Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Experience Sampling Method, United States, Combined Engagement, John Dewey, Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test, Benjamin Bloom New!
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- Social Psychology (Nelson-Hall Series in Psychology) by Stephen Worchel in Back Matter
- Child Development by A.Christine Harris in Back Matter
- Educational Psychology by WILEY in Back Matter
- Social Psychology (Hodder Arnold Publication) by Donald C. Pennington in Back Matter
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- Ready Or Not: What Happens When We Treat Children As Small Adults by Kay Hymowitz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Early Gifts: Recognizing and Nurturing Children's Talents by Paula Olszewski-Kubilius Ph.D. in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) by Gary Alan Fine in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Meeting the Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted and Talented Children (Nace/Fulton Publication) by Michael Stopper on page 9, and page 48
- The Ambitious Generation: America`s Teenagers, Motivated but Directionless by Dr. Barbara Schneider in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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