From the Founders:
  • Redefining, Reconfiguring, and Reaffirming Gifted Education: The Promise of
Interdisciplinary Collaboration.
Ken W. McCluskey; Taisir Subhi Yamin                                                                                                                 7
 
From the Editor’s Desk:
  • Innovative Pathways and Possibilities: A Vision for Creative and Transformative
Learning.
Karen Magro                                                                                                                                                             19
 
Target Paper:
  • Borrowing Insights from Other Disciplines to Strengthen the Conceptual
Foundations for Gifted Education.
Don Ambrose                                                                                                                                                              33
 
Commentaries:
  • Energizing Conceptual Foundations in Gifted Education through Transdisciplinarity.
Connie Phelps                                                                                                                                                             59
 
  • A Voice of Sanity in the Arid Land of Dogmatic Systems.
Roland S. Persson                                                                                                                                                       65
 
  • Consilience: A Response to Ambrose’s Notion of “Borrowing Insights”.
Peter Merrotsy                                                                                                                                                             71
 
  • Nurturing Interdisciplinary Interconnections to Enhance Theoretical Talent
Development: Using Metaphor to Reflect on Ambrose’s Insights for Gifted Education.
Susen Smith; Chinhsieh Lu                                                                                                                                         77
 
  • Borrowing Insights from MIT and Otto Sharmer as a Conceptual Base for Gifted
Education.
Dorothy A. Sisk                                                                                                                                                             93
 
  • Giftedness, Expertise, Excellence, Creativity … Giftedness … A Chronicle of a
Developing Interdisciplinary Study as an Example.
Rama Klavir                                                                                                                                                                 103
 
  • Are the Problems of Gifted Education Really about Discipline Myopia?
Bruce M. Shore                                                                                                                                                            119
 
  • Gifted Education and Conditions for Interdisciplinarity.
Shelagh A. Gallagher                                                                                                                                                 125
 
  • Commentary on Ambrose’s Borrowing Insights from Other Disciplines to
Strengthen the Conceptual Foundations for Gifted Education.
Tracy Ford Inman                                                                                                                                                      141
 
  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives to the Development of High Ability in the 21st
Bharath Sriraman; Matt Roscoe                                                                                                                              143
 
  • Research Journey in Diversity: Focus on Gifted Population.
Terrence V. Stange                                                                                                                                                     149
 
  • A Response to “Borrowing Insights from Other Disciplines to Strengthen the
Conceptual Foundation for Gifted Education”.
John P. Anchan                                                                                                                                                           159
 
  • Crossing Disciplinary Borders in the Psychology of Creativity: An Exercise in
Perspective-Taking.
Vlad Petre Glăveanu; Maciej Karwowski                                                                                                               165
 
  • Learning Styles and Problem-Solving Styles of Talented Secondary School Students.
Marcia A. Delcourt; Donald J. Treffinger; Billie L. Woodel-Johnson; Karen Burke                                        179
 
  • On “Borrowing Insights from Other Disciplines: Mandatory, Superfluous or
Tangential?”
Michael F. Shaughnessy                                                                                                                                            193
 
  • The Gift of Interdisciplinarity: Towards an Ability to Think across Disciplines.
Frédéric Darbellay                                                                                                                                                     197
 
  • Murdering the Innocents.
Trevor J. Tebbs                                                                                                                                                           209
 
  • Toward a Sound Epistemology of Gifted Education.
David Yun Dai                                                                                                                                                              221
 
  • How to Make Gifted Education Creative.
Slavica Maksić                                                                                                                                                              227
 
  • Response to Don Ambrose’s Article
Julia Link Roberts                                                                                                                                                       233
 
  • Let’s Talk: Opening the Way to Interdisciplinary Exploration of Giftedness
Janna Wardman                                                                                                                                                          235
 
Conclusion Paper:
  • A Dialogue with Adventurous, Interdisciplinary Explorers: Reactions to the
Response Papers.
Don Ambrose                                                                                                                                                               239
 
Profiles of Creativity:
  • Joseph S. Renzulli.
Sally M. Reis                                                                                                                                                                257
 
Book Review (1):
  • Building on Resilience, Models and Frameworks of Black Male Success
Across the P-20 Pipeline (Fred A. Bonner II, Editor, 2015).
Derek Irvin; Tammy Lane; Kenneth Hines                                                                                                             265
 
Book Review (2):
  • Reflections on Gifted Education: Critical Works by Joseph S. Renzulli and
Colleagues (Sally M. Reis, Editor, 2016).
Sandra M. Linke                                                                                                                                                         271