Handbook of Giftedness and Talent Development in the Asia-Pacific

1. A Counselling Framework for Meeting the Needs of Gifted Students in Malaysia

   • Abu Yazid Abu Bakar, Linda E. Brody

2. A Model for Growing Teacher Talent Scouts: Decreasing Underrepresentation of Gifted Students

   • Julie Dingle Swanson, Lara Walker Russell, Lindsey Anderson

3. Assessment, Pedagogy, and Curriculum: Section Introduction

   • James J. Watters

4. Attuned Pedagogy: The Artistry of Differentiated Instruction from a Taiwanese Cultural Perspective

   • Chin-hsieh Lu, Wei-Ren Chen

5. Australian Teachers Who Made a Difference: Secondary Gifted Student Perceptions of Teaching and Teacher Effectiveness

   • Karen B. Rogers

6. Being of Like-Mind: Giftedness in the New Zealand Context

   • Tracy Riley

7. Bricolage and the Evolution of Giftedness and Talent in Taiwan

   • Dale Albanese, Ming-Jen Yu, Jing-Jyi Wu

8. Creative and Gifted Education in Korea: Using the CATs Model to Illustrate How Creativity Can Grow into Innovation

   • Kyung Hee Kim, Jeongkyu Lee

9. Creativity Talent Development: Fostering Creativity in Schools

   • Carly Lassig

10. Differentiation of Instruction for Gifted Learners: Collated Evaluative Studies of Teacher Classroom Practices

    • Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Gail Fischer Hubbard, Janice I. Robbins

11. Diverse Dimensions of Gifted Education: Section Introduction

    • Seokhee Cho

12. Educational Contexts, Transitions, and Community Engagement: Section Introduction

    • Selena Gallagher

13. Engaging Gifted Students in Solving Real Problems Creatively: Implementing the Real Engagement in Active Problem-Solving (REAPS) Teaching/Learning Model in Australasian and Pacific Rim Contexts

    • C. June Maker, Myra Wearne

14. Exploring Diverse Perceptions of Wise Persons: Wisdom in Gifted Education

    • Kyungbin Park, Eunhyang Kim

15. Fostering and Developing Talent in Mentorship Programs: The Mentor’s Perspectives

    • Liang See Tan, Jing Yi Tan, Terence Titus Chia

16. Fostering Resilience in ‘At-Risk’ Gifted and Talented Young People

    • Nadine Ballam

17. Gifted and Talented Aboriginal Students in Australia

    • Susanne Garvis, Sally Windsor, Donna Pendergast

18. Gifted and Twice-exceptional Children in the South of the World: Chilean Students’ Experiences within Regular Classrooms

    • María Paz Gómez-Arízaga, María Leonor Conejeros-Solar

19. Gifted Education in the Asia-Pacific: From the Past for the Future: An Introduction

    • Susen Smith

20. Gifted Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Provisions and Priorities in Australian School Settings

    • Aranzazu M. Blackburn, Geraldine Townend

This book is the first ever handbook on giftedness and talent development for the Asia-Pacific region. It discusses important issues for an important group of students, addresses a gap in the current understanding of gifted students in the region, traverses substantial intellectual terrain, and draws on past and present research literature. 


The book brings together contributions from 18 countries, providing a diverse, unique and comprehensive contemporary research and practice on giftedness and talent development in the Asia-Pacific region. It highlights contemporary issues and incorporates important topics such as conceptions, identification, curriculum, and programmes. Chapters in the book will include a stronger focus on pedagogy that could assist researchers, academics and educators, post-graduate students, families, advocates, teachers and practitioners, and other stakeholders to support gifted students. It also informs pre-service education programmes in gifted education, in-service professional learning programmes, and future research and practice in this region of the world. 

• gifted and talented students
• gifted and talented education
• high ability and talent development
• indigenous gifted and talent development
• culture conceptions and giftedness
• Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration
• ability grouping
• social emotional learning
• giftedness and identity and belonging
• teacher professional development
• effective teacher and talent cultivation
• higher education gifted students
• counselling gifted for talent development

• School of Education, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia

  Susen R. Smith

Dr. Susen Smith is GERRIC Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Gifted & Special Education at the School of Education, University of NSW, Australia. She has extensive experience as a teacher, curriculum consultant, and educational leader from early childhood to tertiary education. She has been an invited Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, CUNY, and the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Her specific research interests include ecological systems theory underpinning dynamically differentiating curriculum and pedagogy for students with giftedness, underachievement, multi-exceptionalities, and learning difficulties. She is widely published in international journals and has keynoted at international conferences.

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