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Indlæser... Smart Girls: A New Psychology of Girls, Women, and Giftedness (Revised Edition)af Barbara A. Kerr
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Why do gifted and talented girls so often fail to realize their potential as they reach adolescence and adulthood? This outstanding book summarizes research on gifted girls, presents biographies of eminent women and examines the current educational and family milieu. From this, Dr. Kerr gives practical advice to parents, teachers and policy-makers about ways to help gifted girls reach their potential. Bright women who read this book will see themselves and their issues and will find it very helpful. This is the third edition of Dr. Kerrs powerful book. Features: Helps parents, educators and counselors understand and guide gifted and talented girls. Presents a twenty-year follow-up research project on "Sputnik-era" gifted girls. Contains biographies of eminent women and the experiences that shaped them. Discusses internal and external barriers to womens achievement. Highlights particular issues for gifted minority girls and women. Describes successful academic programs. Over 80,000 copies of the current and prior editions have been sold. No library descriptions found. |
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The descriptions of the various stages of life that gifted girls and women go through match my own experiences an my gifted friends' experiences quite accurately for the most part. I have definitely experienced the insatiable curiosity typical in childhood, followed by a loss of confidence in adolescence and the conflicts between career and relationships that followed. I have definitely been frustrated at what seems to be my own inability to live up to the potential that my parents and teachers saw in me as a child. So I think Barbara A. Kerr is doing really important work, writing about and examining this topic.
She gives some suggestions and practical advice for gifted girls and women, and their parents and teachers, although it is sometimes vague. But I think that's fine, since it is probably difficult to give universal advice to a group of people who vary so much in their talents, interests, and circumstances.
Kerr does advocate for gifted girls to attend women-only institutions for post-secondary education, which I think makes sense for the time this book was originally published (1985), as she states that there was still a lot of sex discrimination in schools back then. However, with statistics from the last few years touting that more women than men are pursuing higher education, as well as the mainstream social and political shift towards feminism, diversity, etc., I think coed schools are probably fine.
The best, most practical advice I got from this, which is also the conclusion that I came to myself in the last year, appears at the very end of this book, in the appendix where Kerr answers some frequently asked questions. She writes, "A job is something someone gives you to do in return for money; a career is something only you can give yourself." She then goes on to say that we can conserve our energy on the job, dont get overly involved in the social relationships there, and don't exhaust yourself as it's a waste of time. We gifted are generally good at reaching a level of competence at whatever we're doing, anyway. Instead, focus your efforts on whatever it is that interests you, spend your time there and develop relationships in that realm; that is where fulfillment will come from. (Of course, if you can make your career into your job, better yet.)
Anyway, this was a really interesting read and I highly recommend it to all gifted women. I'm sure you'll devour it as I have, and find yourselves in these pages. ( )