Bright Adults: Uniqueness and Belonging across the Lifespan

Explore unique challenges faced by bright and gifted adults throughout their life stages, beginning with age 18. These individuals often do not see themselves for the complex adults they are. This book addresses their needs to belong, to remain authentic to their identities, to contribute to the world, and to find challenge and meaning in life when faced with issues of multipotentiality, idealism, and feelings of isolation. From decisions about college and graduate school to first jobs and career paths, from marriage and parenthood to aging and death, Fiedler provides thought-provoking insights and advice on the lives of bright and gifted adults.

Author: Ellen D. Fiedler
Publisher: Gifted Unlimited
Published: 11/02/2015
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781935067412

About the Author
Fiedler, Ellen D.: - Dr. Ellen Fiedler, a Professor Emerita from the Master in Arts in Gifted Education (M.A.G.E.) program at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, is currently a private educational consultant. She regularly provides professional development for school districts and other educational agencies, presentations for parents, and a wide range of consultation services related to gifted students and their education. She has been a Gifted Program Coordinator and a State Consultant for Gifted and has provided consultation services, webinars, and presentations at various conferences in the United States and internationally. She was chair of the Counseling and Guidance Division of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), co-chair of the Global Awareness Division of NAGC, and Newsletter Editor for the Global Awareness Network of NAGC. She provided chapters on gifted adults in Living with Intensity and in Off the Charts: Asynchrony and the Gifted Child. She is Past President of the Michigan Association for Gifted Children, plus a member of the Florida Association for the Gifted, Illinois Association for Gifted Children, National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), and the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children (WCGTC). She co-authored the state guide to diversity and equity for gifted programs in Illinois and serves as a State of Illinois Trainer for the Gifted Education Seminars. She received her Master's degree in Elementary Education, with an emphasis on gifted children, and her Ph.D. in Counseling and Guidance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she worked at the Guidance Institute for Talented Students there as a Research Assistant to the director. Dr. Fiedler lives in Florida during the winter and in southwest lower Michigan in the summer. She is an avid sailor with an old wooden sailboat that she typically sails single-handed on Lake Michigan. She initially became involved in gifted education as a parent of two profoundly gifted children.