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Direct linkLaycraft, Krystyna – Roeper Review, 2009
Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration describes patterns and explains mechanisms of human development and has been successfully applied to understanding of gifted individuals. This article shows how the concepts of chaos theory and self-organization such as the sensitivity to initial conditions, positive and negative feedback, bifurcation…
Descriptors: Gifted, Personality, Adjustment (to Environment), Depression (Psychology)
Hague, William J. – Gifted Education International, 1998
Describes higher levels of morality by contrasting Kohlber's Cognitive Developmentalism and Dabrowski's Positive Disintegration. It argues that far from being a gift, high-level morality is a function of the whole person. It is something chosen and striven for, and the result of compassion and some kind of disintegration. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cognitive Development, Definitions, Empathy
Download full textGottfried, Allen W.; Gottfried, Adele Eskeles; Guerin, Diana Wright – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2006
The Fullerton Longitudinal Study is a contemporary prospective investigation that spans approximately a quarter of a century. Commencing at age 1, children and their families were systematically followed every 6 months from infancy through preschool and annually at ages 5 through 17. They were again assessed at age 24. The course of development…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Gifted, Learning Motivation, Young Children
Ismail, Maznah; And Others – 1984
Workshops on child development explored the cognitive development of children, mass media and its effects on children, parenting, the emotional and personality development of children, and educating the exceptional child, including the gifted. The discussion of cognitive development focused on the need to collect information about cognitive…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Cognitive Development, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedRamey, David A. – Roeper Review, 1991
Research in the fields of management, leadership development, and human development is reviewed. The research suggests that the quality of an individual's personal life, the effectiveness of his/her professional work, and the lasting public value of his/her social contribution are contingent upon a coherent sense of personal integration and…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Cognitive Development, Gifted, Individual Development
McDaniel, Ernest D.; And Others – 1973
Patterns of cognitive, affective, and social growth of elementary school children are described and the school and home variables which influence such growth are identified in this longitudinal study. This final report presents the final instruments and the interpretive data associated with them. The study permits the tracing of developmental…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Development, Educational Environment
