Professional Background
Professor of Education
Educational Background
B.A., Johns Hopkins University (English Literature); M.S., Clarion State College (Special Education w/ an emphasis in diagnostic-prescriptive intervention strategies for handicapped learners); Ph.D., Teachers College (Special Education w/ an emphasis on the education of gifted and research)
Dissertation Title: Cognitive Controls, Cognitive Styles, and Divergent Production Among Gifted Preadolescents.
Teaching Certification: Special Education (Elementary N-6 and Secondary English) for New York State;
Special Education for Pennsylvania
Scholarly Interests
Education of gifted students. Economically disadvantaged gifted students. Conceptions of giftedness.
Selected Publications
Planning and Implementing Programs for the Gifted (Teachers College Press).
Rethinking Gifted Education (Teachers College Press).
"Gifted education and the threat of irrelevance" (Journal for the Education of the Gifted).
"Identifying young, potentially gifted, economically disadvantaged students" (Gifted Child Quarterly).
"The construct of giftedness" (Peabody Journal of Education).
James H Borland
Professor of Education
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