CURRICULUM
VITAE
JANE
PIIRTO
233
W. Walnut St.
Ashland,
OH 44805
419-281-6516
jpiirto@ashland.edu
JANE
PIIRTO is Trustees’ Distinguished Professor at Ashland University in
Ohio. She
is both an award-winning scholar in education and a widely published
and
award-winning poet and novelist.
Her
scholarly books are Talented
Children and Adults (3
editions, latest 2007 from Prufrock
Press); Understanding
Those Who Create (2
editions, 2nd edition
Parents’ Choice & Glyph Awards); Understanding
Creativity; Luovuus;
and “My
Teeming Brain”: Understanding
Creative Writers.
Her
literary books are The
Three-Week Trance Diet (award-winning
novel); A
Location in
the Upper Peninsula (collected
poems, stories, essays);
several poetry and creative nonfiction chapbooks. A new poetry
collection is
forthcoming in April 2008.
She
has published many scholarly articles and literary works in journals
and
anthologies. She is listed as both a poet and a writer in the Directory
of
American Poets and Writers.
She was named an Ohio
Magazine educator
of distinction, and she has an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from
Northern
Michigan University. In 2007 she was awarded the Mensa Lifetime
Achievement
Award by the Mensa Education and Research Foundation.
She
is a former member of the Board of Directors of the National
Association for
Gifted Children. She was awarded the Higher Education Award from the
Ohio
Association for Gifted Children. She regularly speaks and consults
nationally
and internationally and has given over 1,000 speeches, consultations,
and
workshops. She has taught the gifted endorsement courses and supervised
over
600 M.Ed. students in education, and several Ed.D. dissertations. She
has
worked with 2,000 talented teenagers in an annual summer honors
institute which
she directs.
INDIVIDUAL
AWARDS AND
HONORS
Listed
in Directory
of American Poets and Fiction
Writers
since 1980s, qualified by publications
in both
poetry and
fiction, one of 1,200 American writers who meet publication standards
in both
genres.
2007,
Mensa Lifetime Achievement Award. Mensa Education and
Research
Foundation.
o
2008
1st podcast of Mensa Education and Research Foundation, on
women and
creativity.
2007,
Higher Education Award. Ohio Association for Gifted
Children,
2007, Citation from the Ohio Legislature for being an outstanding Ohio
citizen.
2006,
Featured in lead interview, Roeper
Review
2006,
Read original poem at
inauguration of president of Ashland University
2006,
2007, 2008 Nominated for
Distinguished Scholar, National Association for Gifted Children.
2004,
Awarded Honorary
Degree Doctor of Humane
Letters from
Northern Michigan University,
Marquette, Michigan. Commencement speaker. Speech on web page:
www.ashland.edu/~jpiirto
2004,
Lifetime Achievement Award from
Ohio Council of Coordinators of the Gifted.
2004,
Ohio
Magazine
Ohio Educator of Distinction.
2002,
Elected as At-Large Member to the
Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children,
2001-present,
Member of Board of
Directors, American Educational Research Association SIG, Research on
the
Intellectually Gifted and Talented, 2001-2002. Editor of Newsletter
2001-2004.
Re-elected to 3 year term in 2004 and 2007
Member
of Ohio Advisory Council for
Gifted Education since mid 1990s.
External
reviewer for eight colleagues’
applications to full professor at their institutions. Teacher’s
College,
Columbia University, Simon Fraser University, University of British
Columbia,
University of Georgia, Oklahoma State University, Northern Michigan
University,
Rider University.
1998,
Appointed a Trustees’ Professor
at Ashland University. Only the fourth in the history of the
institution. This
is an award for full professors. It is a lifetime appointment.
1996,
Visiting Professorship in
Educational Psychology/ Gifted Education and Creativity Studies at the
University of Georgia.
Editorial
Review Boards: Journal
for
Creative Behavior,
Roeper Review, Journal for the Education of the Gifted, Gifted Child
Quarterly,
Invited reviewer for Educational
Researcher, Anthropology
and Education Quarterly,
Journal of Advanced Academics, Journal for Women and Minorities in
Science.
External
reviewer for dissertations at
University of Helsinki, University of Calgary, University of British
Columbia,
Monash University.
1993,
Individual Artist Fellowship in
Poetry. $5,000. Ohio Arts Council.
1991-92,
Provost's Teaching Scholar -
Ashland University.
1990,
91, 92, Panelist, Ohio Arts
Council Arts in Education Panel.
1991,
Panelist, Overview Advisory
Panel, Arts in Education, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington,
D.C.
1991,
Judge, Ohio Book Awards. Ohioana
Library Association.
1990,
Fulbright Hays Fellowship to
Argentina
1988,
Chosen to consult with American
schools in Near East & India by U.S. State Department
1985,
Carpenter Press First Novel
Award.
1983,
84, 85--Chair, Ohio Arts Council
Literature Panel.
1982.
Individual Artist Fellowship in
Fiction. $6,000. Ohio Arts Council.
1980,
Finalist, Iowa Short Fiction Contest.
Judge: Raymond Carver.
1975-76,
University Fellow. Bowling
Green State Univ.
1964-65,
Graduate Assistant. Kent State
University English department.
1962-63—Editor
of university newspaper.
1963—Alternate
and National
Semi-finalist. Woodrow Wilson Fellowships.
1960—Sampo
Society, Suomi College
1959—Betty
Crocker Homemaker of the
Year Award
SCHOLARLY
BOOKS
*(2007).
Talented
Children and Adults: Their Development and Education,
3rd edition. Prufrock Press. 765 pages.
*(2004).
Understanding
creativity.
Scottsdale, AZ: Great Potential Press.
*(2002).
“My
teeming brain”: Understanding creative writers.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Uusikylä,
K., & Piirto, J. (1999). Luovuus:
Taitl löytää, rohkeus toteuttaa.
Jyväskylä, Finland: WSOY Publishers. In Finnish.
*(1999). Talented
children and adults: Their development and education.2nd
Edition.
Columbus, OH: Prentice Hall/Merrill.
*(1998).
Understanding
those who create.
2nd
Edition. Tempe, AZ: Great Potential Press.
*(1994).
Talented
children and adults: Their development and education.
New York: Macmillan/Merrill.
*(1992).
Understanding
those who create.
Dayton, OH: Ohio Psychology Press. Also translated into Chinese.
JOURNAL
ARTICLES *
= refereed
(Submitted).
18 Years with the
Dabrowski Theory: An Artistic Autoethnography.
(Submitted).
The OEQ II: A Comparison
of Korean and U.S. Teenagers. With Diane Montgomery
Special
issue devoted to Piirto’s Qualitative Research:
(2008).
Why Does A Writer Write? Because.
Mensa Research Journal, 39(1), 7-18.
(2008).
Implications of Postmodern
Curriculum Theory
for the Education of the Talented. Mensa
Research Journal, 39(1), 19-32.
(2008).
Themes in the Lives of
Successful Contemporary
U.S. Women Creative Writers. Mensa
Research Journal, 39(1), 33-39.
(2008).
“I Live In My Own Bubble”: The
Values of
Talented Adolescents. Mensa
Research Journal, 39(1), 33-49.
(2008).
“Motivation Is All: Then They
Can Do
Anything”: Portrait of An Indian School for the Gifted and Talented.
Mensa Research Journal, 39(1), 62-73.
(2008).
Understanding Creativity in
Domains Using the
Piirto Pyramid of Talent Development As A Framework. Mensa Research Journal, 39(1), 74-84.
(2008).
Rethinking the Creativity
Curriculum: An
Organic Approach to Creativity Enhancement. Mensa
Research Journal, 39(1), 85-94.
*(2007).
Reynolds, F. C., & Piirto,
J. Honoring
and Suffering the Thorn: Marking, Naming, Initiating,
and Eldering: Depth Psychology, II. Roeper
Review, 29(5), 48-53.
*(2005).
I
Live in My Own Bubble:
Values of Talented Adolescents Before and After 9/11/2001.
Journal
of Secondary Gifted Education, XVI (2/3),
106-119.
*(2005)
Rethinking
the Creativity
Curriculum. Gifted
Education Communicator, 36 (2),
12-19. Journal of the California Association for the Gifted.
*(2005).
Depth
Psychology and
Giftedness: Bringing Soul to the Field of Talent Development Education.
Roeper
Review, 17(3),
164-171. With first author, F.
Christopher Reynolds.
*(2002).
The
Question of Quality
and Qualifications: Writing Inferior Poems as Qualitative Research.
International
Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education,
15
(4),
431-445,
*(2002).
The
Unreliable Narrator,
or the Difference Between Writing Prose in Literature and in Social
Science.
International
Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 15(4), 407-415.
*(2002).
Motivation Is All. Then They Can Do Anything. Qualitative
Portrait of a School for the Gifted and Talented in India.
Gifted
Child Quarterly, 46(3),
181-192.
*(2001,
Spring). Themes
in the Lives of
Adult Creative Writers. Tempo,
XXI
(2), p. 4, ff.
*(2000).
The
Piirto Pyramid of
Talent Development: a Conceptual Framework.
Gifted
Child Today, 23(6),
22-29.
*(2000).
Krishnamurti
and Me:
Meditations on India and on His Philosophy of Education. Journal
for Curriculum Theorizing, 16 (2),
pp. 109-124.
*(1999).
Implications
of
Postmodern Curriculum Theory for the Education of the Talented.
Journal
for the Education of the Gifted, 22
(4), 386-406.
*(1999). A
Different Approach to
Creativity Enhancement. Tempo,
XIX,
3, 1,
(1999,
Spring).
Asynchrony
and the Gifted. Understanding
Our Gifted, 11 (3), 12-15.
(1999,
November). Metaphor
and Image in Counseling the Talented.
Spotlight:
Newsletter of the Arts Division of the National Association for Gifted
Children,
pp. 6-7.
*(I998.)
Themes
in the Lives of
Contemporary U.S. Women Creative Writers at Midlife.
Roeper
Review, 21
(1), 60-70. (Special issue on
creativity guest edited by Karen Rogers and Sandra Kay).
(1995).
Predictive
Behaviors and
Crystallizing Experiences in Male College Student Artists.
Spotlight:
Newsletter of the National Association for Gifted Children Visual and
Performing Arts Special Interest Group.
*(1995).
Deeper,
Wider, Broader:
the Pyramid of Talent Development in the Context of the Giftedness
Construct.
Educational
Forum, 59
(4), 363-371. Guest editor: John
Feldhusen.
*Piirto,
J., & Fraas, J. (1995). Androgyny
in the
Personalities of Talented Adolescents.
The Journal
of Secondary
Gifted Education, 1(3),
93-102. with John Fraas. Guest editor: Frances Karnes.
(1994).
A
Few Thoughts on Actors.
Spotlight:
Newsletter for the Visual and Performing Arts. National
Association for Gifted Children, 1-2.
*(1991).
Why
Are There So Few?
(Creative Women: Visual Artists, Mathematicians, Musicians).
Roeper
Review, 13(3),
142-147.
(1990).
Profiles
of Creative
Adolescents.
Understanding
Our Gifted, 2, 1.
*(1989a).
Does
Writing Prodigy
Exist?
Creativity
Research Journal, 2,
134-35.
(1989b,
May/June). Linguistic
Prodigy: Does
it Exist?
Gifted
Children Monthly,
pp. 1-2.
*(1989,
July/August). What
Do You Do in a
Primary Gifted Program?
Gifted
Children Today,
pp. 33-34.
*(1989,
November/ December). What
Did Robert Kennedy
Die Of? Cultural Literacy for Gifted Students. Gifted
Children Today,
pp. 51-53.
*Higham,
S., & Navarre, J. Piirto.
(1984). Gifted
Adolescent Females
Require Differential Treatment. Journal
for
the Education of the Gifted, 8
(1), 43-49.
*Navarre,
J. Piirto. (1983, Jan/Feb.). How
the Teacher of the Gifted Can Use the Structure of the
Intellect. Gifted/Creative/Talented,
pp.l6-17.
*Navarre,
J. Piirto. (1980). Is
What Is Good for the Gander, Good for the Goose: Should
Gifted Girls Receive Differential Treatment? Roeper
Review, 2
(3), 21-25.
Navarre,
J. Piirto (1978). Intuition
in the creative
process. Gifted
Child Quarterly, 22
(3), 276-281.
CHAPTERS
IN EDITED BOOKS AND HANDBOOKS
*(In
press). Themes
in the Lives of
Finnish Orchestra Conductors.
With Dr. Kari
Uusikyla, University of Helsinki. Edited book from Sibelius Academy,
Helsinki,
Finland.
*(2008).
Personalities of creative writers. In S. Kaufman & J. Kaufman (Eds.), Psychology of Creative Writing. New
York: Cambridge University Press.
*(2008).
Giftedness
in nonacademic
domains.
In S. Pfeiffer (Ed.), Handbook
of Giftedness
in Children Psycho-Educational
Theory, Research,
and Best Practices.( pp.
367-386). New York: Springer.
*(2008). Krishnamurti and me: Meditations
on his
philosophy of curriculum and on India. In C.
Eppert and H. Wong (Eds.). Cross-cultural studies in
curriculum:
Eastern thought, educational insights (pp. 247-266). New York:
Lawrence
Erlbaum.
*(2007).
A
Postmodern View of The Creative Process.
In J. Kincheloe and R. Horn (Eds.), Educational
Psychology Handbook.
Greenwood Press.
*(2005.).
The
Creative Process in
Poets.
In J.Kaufman and J. Baer (Eds). Creativity
in
domains: Faces of the muse
(pp. 1-21). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum.
*(2002)
Parenting
Talented
Children.
In Handbook
of Parenting,
Second Edition, Vol. 5 (pp. 195-219). Edited by Marc Bornstein. First
author:
David Feldman.
*(2000).
How
Parents and Teachers
Can Enhance Creativity in Children.
In M.D. Gold &
C. R. Harris (Eds.), Fostering
creativity in children, K-8: Theory and practice (pp.
49-68). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
*2000).
Questions
for the
Education of the Gifted and Talented.
In D. Montgomery,
(Ed.), Able
underachievers.
London, UK: Whurr Publishers, Ltd.
**Piirto,
J., Cassone, G., &
Wilkes, P. (1999). Talent
Development in the
Middle School.
In
C. Walley & G. Gerrick (Eds.), Affirming
middle school education
(pp. 134-149). Boston, MA: Allyn &
Bacon.
*(1999). A
Survey of Psychological
Studies of Creativity.
In
A. Fishkin, B. Cramond, & P. Olszewski-Kubilius (Eds.). Investigating
creativity in youth (pp.
10-25).
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. In creativity series edited by Mark Runco.
*(1995).
The
Pyramid of Talent
Development in the Context of the Giftedness Construct.
In
Katzko, M.W., and F.J. Monks (Eds). Nurturing Talent:
Individual needs and social ability (pp. 10-20). Proceedings of the
European
Council for High Ability Conference. The Netherlands: Van Gorcum, Assen.
**(1997). Educating
Talented Young Children in an Era of School Reform.
In
J. Smutney (Ed.). Young
gifted
children.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. With C.
Cummings
*Feldman,
D., & Piirto, J. (1995). Parenting
Talented Children.
In
M. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook
of
Parenting. I .,
pp. 285-304. New York: Longman. Being
revised for second edition in 2001.
*(1991).
Encouraging Creativity
in Adolescents. In
J. Genshaft & M. Bireley (Eds.).
Gifted
and talented adolescents
(pp. 104-122). New York: Teachers
College Press.
(1982).
The
Use of The Structure
of Intellect Learning Abilities Test in Student Assessment.
In
D. Friedrich and J. Carroll (Eds.), Program
Evaluation and Student Assessment
(pp. 143-91). Mt. Pleasant, Mich: Central Michigan University Press.
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