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S3.7.12 Neuroscience and Gifted Education: Foundation for Practice or Application Gap?

What does neuroscience research offer scholars, psychologists, and teachers who work with gifted and talented students? This symposium will provide an overview of research including basic neuroscience concepts relevant for education, applications of neuroscience to the development and education of gifted students, and specific findings with twice-exceptional students. Topics include use of the term “brain-based,” neuromyths in our field, the research base for educational practice, and how a focus on neuroplasticity might broaden our conception of talent development, particularly with young children of poverty. There will be time for discussion and Q&A.

Author(s):

Pamela Clinkenbeard
clinkenp@uww.edu
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
United States

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Dr. Pamela Clinkenbeard is Professor of Educational Foundations at UW-Whitewater, where she co-developed Wisconsin's first gifted education licensure program and co-directs the UWW master’s degree emphasis in Challenging Advanced Learners. She has served as a board member and officer of the U.S. National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) and is currently the U.S. Correspondent to the European Council for High Ability (ECHA). She also serves on gifted education and research advisory boards at Northwestern University (CTD) and Purdue University (GERI), and is a member of the Gifted Child Quarterly and Gifted and Talented International editorial boards.

Erin Miller
emmiller@bridgewater.edu
Bridgewater College
United States

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Erin Morris Miller is Associate Professor of Psychology at Bridgewater College. She is an officer of the AERA-SIG "Research on Giftedness and Creativity" and is past chair of both the Conceptual Foundations Network and the Legacy Series of the National Association for Gifted Children. Her research interests include the measurement of implicit theories of intelligence and implications for motivation.

Susan Assouline
susan-assouline@uiowa.edu
University of Iowa
United States

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Susan G. Assouline holds the Myron and Jacqueline N. Blank Endowed Chair in Gifted Education and is Director of the Belin-Blank Center and Professor of School Psychology at the University of Iowa. Prof. Assouline is a leading expert on acceleration of gifted students and has received the NAGC Distinguished Scholar Award.

Curtis Bradley
cbradley@bridgewater.edu
Bridgewater College
United States

   

Dr. Curtis Bradley received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology in 2018 from East Tennessee State University. He is currently a visiting assistant professor at Bridgewater College where he teaches courses in neuropsychology. Curtis conducts research in the areas of Neuropsychology, Behavioral Science and Biological Psychology. In his free time he enjoys running and disc golf.

 


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