Ann Robinson - A Century of Contributions to Gifted Education

A Century of Contributions to Gifted Education traces the conceptual history of the field of gifted education. Bookended by Sir Francis Galton's Hereditary Genius of 1869 and Sidney Marland's report to the United States Congress in 1972, each chapter represents the life and work of a key figure in the development of the field.

While the historical record of gifted education has previously been limited, A Century of Contributions to Gifted Education explores the lives of individuals who made fundamental contributions in the areas of eminence, intelligence, creativity, advocacy, policy, and curriculum. Drawing heavily on archival research and primary source documentation, expert contributors highlight the major philosophical, theoretical, and pedagogical developments in gifted education over the course of a century, providing both lively biography and scholarly analysis.

Ann Robinson is Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Jodie Mahony Center for Gifted Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Jennifer L. Jolly is Associate Professor of Gifted Education at Louisiana State University.

A CENTURY OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO GIFTED EDUCATION

Illuminating Lives

Edited by Ann Robinson and Jennifer L. Jolly

First published 2014
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A century of contributions to gifted education: illuminating lives / edited by
Ann Robinson, Jennifer Jolly.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Gifted childrenEducation. 2. Teachers of gifted children.
I. Robinson, Ann, 1949- II. Jolly, Jennifer L., 1972
LC3993.C456 2013
371.95dc23 2013016333

ISBN: 978-0-415-89880-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-89881-2 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-15448-9 (ebk)

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Abraham J. Tannenbaum

Julia Link Roberts, Ed.D.

Tracy L. Cross, Ph.D.

Ann Robinson

Joyce Van Tassel-Baska

Maria Pereira Da Costa, Franck Zenasni, Serge Nicolas, and Todd Lubart

Frank C. Worrell

Jennifer L. Jolly

Daniel L. Winkler and Jennifer L. Jolly

Holly Hertberg-Davis

Ann Robinson and Dean Keith Simonton

Jennifer L. Jolly

Jennifer L. Jolly and Jennifer H. Robins

Joy Lawson Davis

Leo Nora M. Cohen, Kathy D. Austin, and Rebecca H. Odoardi

Thomas P. Hbert

Marjorie M. K. Battaglia, Sal Mendaglio, and Michael M. Piechowski

Ann Robinson

James H. Borland

Ann Robinson, Bronwyn MacFarlane, and Debbie Dailey

Suzanna E. Henshon

Leonie Kronborg

Karen B. Rogers

Jane Piirto and Susan Keller-Mathers

Jennifer L. Jolly and Michael S. Matthews

Ann Robinson and Jennifer L. Jolly

Thanks are due to a remarkable group of archivists and librarians on whom biographical research depends. We thank Lizette Royer Barton, archivist for the Center for the History of Psychology at the University of Akron, for her expert assistance on documents related to Terman, Cox Miles, and Hollingworth and to student Daniel Johnson of the Center for checking the moving images of Catharine Cox Miles to verify their contents. We also thank Jennifer Govan and Brian Hughes of the Gottesman Library Archives for their assistance with documents related to Harry Passow, Miriam Goldberg, and Ruth May Strang. Paul McNeil from the Indiana University Liberian Collections located an image of Martin Jenkins, and Anne L. Moore from the University of Massachusetts assisted with the W.E.B. DuBois photographs. Our thanks go to Carla Buss, Skip Hulett, and Chuck Barber at the library of the University of Georgia for their assistance with the primary sources in the Torrance collection. We also thank Clint Bailey and Cynthia Morgan at the J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah Archives and Records Department who allowed us access to the archives. Finally, we thank Dan Mitchell from the University College London Special Collections for assistance with the image of Sir Francis Galton.

We have also had the assistance of colleagues, friends, and family members in a variety of ways. Ellis Oliver Jones assisted us in our inquiries about Catharine Cox Miles. Michael Passow answered questions about his father as did Harry Passow's colleague Dr. Abraham Tannenbaum. We thank Marjorie Siegel of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching for her successful efforts to locate the elusive photograph of Drs. Passow and Goldberg. Dr. Maurice Fisher provided information about Virgil Scott Ward and led us to Rebecca Ward and the location of her father's papers. Kathi Kearney provided the image of Leta Hollingworth and children from her private collection. Thanks go to Serge Nicolas for images from his private collection and to Bernard Andrieu of the Binet Archives in Nancy, France. We are indebted to Dr. Walter Barbe for taking time to share his stories and memories of Paul Witty.

Documents and images located at the offices of the National Association for Gifted Children and provided with the assistance of Nancy Green, Jane Claren-bach, Andy Bassett, and Karen Yoho enriched our understanding of Ann Fabe Isaacs.

The editorial team at Routledge are consummate professionals. Our thanks go to Lane Akers for his early interest in the Illuminating Lives project and to Alex Masulis and Madeleine Hamlin for guiding the work to completion.

Finally, this project would not have been nearly as much fun without the expertise and lively support of Becky Rogers, Krista Smith, and Paulette Edison of the Jodie Mahony Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Co-author and colleague Debbie Dailey proved to be a tenacious researcher, following up leads on several of the chapters that appear in this book. We have all been bitten by the biographical bug.

Ann Robinson, Little Rock, AR
Jennifer L. Jolly, Baton Rouge, LA

Abraham J. Tannenbaum

PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY
TEACHERS COLLEGE

It is a pleasure for me to herald this book into being for a few reasons. For one, my friend and mentor A. Harry Passow is included here. I still vividly remember the day I interviewed to be his research assistant. Working with Harry and the delightful Miriam Goldberg (another illuminated life within the contents of this book) will remain treasured memories as we created what was to become the Talented Youth Project. Secondly, I have had the pleasure of working with Ann Robinson and watching her develop as an important leader in the field. Last, but not least, this book can help shape gifted education by borrowing from past research, ongoing research, and projecting into the future. For example, one will note that an interest in the biographies of eminent people has a history that formed one of this field's earliest contributions to curriculum. The gifted students taught by Leta Hollingworth (illuminated in another chapter) studied the biographies of eminent individuals and synthesized their learning into creative products that continue, to this day, to impress. Gifted education curriculum often includes the study of leaders and contributors in all fields. The authors in