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This Book Highlights How To Conduct Research In Gifted Education When Researchers Have To Choose From Myriad Theoretical Ideas, Hypotheses, Claims, Practical Models, And Strategies. It Shows Researchers How To Build Clarity, Rigor, And Relevance Into A Research Agenda That Combats Fragmentation And Contributes To Enhanced Theoretical And Practical Endeavors In The Field. Specifically, Paradigms Of Gifted Education Advocates A Paradigmatic Approach To Conducting Research In Gifted Education And Shows How It Can Be Done Every Step Of The Way By Specifying The Essential Questions Of What?, Why?, Who?, And How? In A Coherent Manner, And By Selecting Methods That Are Appropriate For The Question Asked And The Phase Of The Research Efforts. To Facilitate The Development Of A Research Agenda, The Book Identifies Three Major Paradigms Of Gifted Education And 20 Essential Research Questions That Would Help Move The Field Forward. Acknowledgements Introduction The Case For A Paradigmatic Approach To Gifted Education Chapter 1 Conceptual Grounding Of Gifted Education The Essential Questions Of What, Why, Who, And How Chapter 2 Methodological Grounding Of Gifted Education From Technical Rationality To Reflective Rationality Chapter 3 Three Paradigms Of Gifted Education A Historical-theoretical Account Chapter 4 The Gifted Child Paradigm I The Questions Of What, Why, And Who (research Questions 1-3) Chapter 5 The Gifted Child Paradigm Ii The Questions Of What, Why, And Who, Extended (research Questions 4-6) Chapter 6 The Gifted Child Paradigm Iii The Question Of How (research Questions 7-9) Chapter 7 The Talent Development Paradigm I The Questions Of What, Why, And Who (research Questions 10-12) Chapter 8 The Talent Development Paradigm Ii The Question Of How (research Questions 13-15) Chapter 9 The Differentiation Paradigm I The Questions Of What, Why, And Who (research Questions 16-18) Chapter 10 The Differentiation Paradigm Ii The Question Of How (research Questions 19-20) Ch