Smart Girls in the 21st Century: Understanding Talented Girls and Women - Paperback

by Barbara A. Kerr (Author)

Drs. Barbara Kerr and Robyn McKay tackle what it means to live with, work with, and be a modern smart girl. Through their keen insights and academic research of real girls and women, they offer valuable information and advice on giftedness, achievement, self-actualization, and more. They examine bright girls' development, types of intelligence, differences in generations, eminent women, barriers to achievement, education & growing talent, adolescence & college, gifted minority girls & women, twice-exceptionalism, and career guidance.

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Drs. Barbara Kerr and Robyn McKay tackle what it means to live with, work with, and be a modern smart girl. Through their keen insights and academic research of real girls and women, they offer valuable information and advice on giftedness, achievement, self-actualization, and more.

Bright girls' development

Types of intelligence

Differences in generations

Eminent women

Barriers to achievement

Education & growing talent

Adolescence & college

Gifted minority girls & women

Twice-exceptionalism

Career guidance

Self-actualization