Articles by Jane Piirto © Jane Piirto Here are some articles I've written and
studies
I've done.
Just click on a title. Enjoy reading them but don't use them as your
own work. Please cite me. |
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| Mensa
Research Journal published 7 articles in a
special issue, Winter 2008, Vol. 39 (1) |
One of the surprises of winning
the Mensa Lifetime Achievement Award in the fall of 2007 was the
publication of a special issue of the Mensa
Research Journal, with 7 of
my articles. I chose qualitative research as the theme, and the
articles range from an autoethnography to a keynote speech. |
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| The Development of
Orchestra Conductors in Finland published in Musikaalisuuden ytimessa: In the Heart of Musicality, Essays in Honour of Kai Karma, by the Sibelius Academy in Finland. Kari
Uusikyla and Jane Piirto
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Ths is an article done with Dr.
Kari Uusikyla of the University of Helsinki. It was published in a
special edited book in honor of the professor and researcher Kai Karma. Reference as: Uuskikyla, K., & Piirto, J. (2007). The development of orchestra conductors in Finland. In M. Laitinen and M. Kainulainen (Eds.), Musikaalisuuden ytimessa: In the heart of musicality (pp. 41-54). Helsinki, FI: Hakapaino Oy. |
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| Giftedness
in Nonacademic Domains |
This is a chapter that appears
in the Handbook of Giftedness in
Children, published in 2008 |
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| "All
Children" Includes the Talented |
This is an alternative
representation, poetic inquiry study in the arts-based educational
research mode. It has been accepted for publication. |
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F. Christopher Reynolds & Jane Piirto |
This is the second article with
a depth psychological approach, published in the Roeper Review, Fall 2007, with F.
Christopher Reynolds as first author. As far as we can tell, it's the
second article in the field of the education of the gifted and talented
to discuss depth psychology. |
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F. Christopher Reynolds &
Jane Piirto |
This is an article published in
May 2005 in the Roeper Review,
with my friend F. Christopher
Reynolds as first author. As
far as we can
tell, it's the first article in the field of the education of the
gifted and talented to discuss depth psychology. |
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| Personality
Attributes of Talented Teenagers |
This is a statistical study
compiling the results of the High School Personality Questionnaire
(HSPQ) and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), which I have
administered to the talented teenagers at the Ohio Summer Honors
Institutes. |
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| The
Creative Process in Poets |
This is an article published in
an edited book called Creativity in
Domains: Faces of the Muse in 2005. (Editors James Kaufman &
John Baer, published by Lawrence Erlbaum) |
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Creativity
As Personal
Transformation: A New Educational Psychology of Creativity |
This is one of the keynote
speeches I have delivered at various conferences. |
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| Parenting Talented
Children |
Feldman, D.,
& Piirto, J. (2002). Parenting talented children. In M. Bornstein
(Ed.) Handbook of parenting, Vol. II 2nd Ed. (pp.
195-219). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum, Assoc. We published the first in 1995. This is the 2nd. |
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Understanding
Creativity in Domains Using the Piirto Pyramid of Talent Development as
a
Framework. |
This is another keynote speech I have delivered in Australia, Kansas, and other places. | |
| The Question of Quality
and Qualifications:
Writing inferior poems as qualitative research. |
This is an article I wrote after attending
several conferences on Arts-based qualitative research and wondering
about the standards for the art that was presented. It was
published in 2002 in the International
Journal of Qualitative Research in Education. It will be
reprinted in the Poetic Inquiry anthology in 2009. |
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| The
Unreliable Narrator, or The Difference Between Writing Prose in
Literature and in Social Science |
This is an article I wrote after
attending several conferences on Arts-based qualitative research and
after a symposium at AERA in 1996 on whether a novel can be a
dissertation. It was published in 2002 in the International Journal of Qualitative
Research in Education. |
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| Themes in the Lives of Women Creative Writers | This is a study I did for the 1995 Wallace Research Symposium at the University of Iowa, later revised and published in The Roeper Review in 1998. It is enfolded into my book, My Teeming Brain: Understanding Creative Writers, also. | |
| Values of Talented
Adolescents Before and After September 11, 2001 |
This is a study I did for the 2002 European
Council for High Ability Conference on Rhodes, Greece. My
findings show that National Security is not a high value for these
teenagers. |
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First published in 1991 in
Roeper Review, and revised in 2000. |
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Published in Summer, 1999, Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 22 (4), 323-353 | |
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This is a creative nonfiction
essay, one version of which is in JCT, Spring, 2000, and it was
reprinted in 2008 in an edited book on eastern thought in education. |
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| "Motivation
is
all. Then they can do anything." Portrait of an Indian School |
This is an article on a school for the gifted and
talented in Pune, India, published in the Gifted Child Quarterly in
2002. |
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| Synchronicity | This is an article from the Encyclopedia of Creativity, 1999. |
| This is an article on my pyramid model and giftedness construct from a special issue of Educational Forum, 1995. | |
| The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Talented Adolescents: Feeling Boys, Thinking Girls, and Judging Teachers. | This is a study I did. It appeared in the Proceedings of the CAPT Conference - Orlando, Fla: March 1998. |
| A review of No Rootless Flower by Frank Barron. | This appeared in Creativity Research Journal, 1997. |
| This appeared in Tempo, the Texas Association for the Gifted Newsletter, Summer, 1999 |
| Talent development in the middle school | Piirto, J., Cassone, G., & Wilkes, P. (1999). Talent development in the middle school. In C. Walley & G. Gerrick (Eds.), Affirming middle school education. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon. |
| Creative Writers | This is a summary of part of my book, "My Teeming Brain": Understanding Creative Writers. |
| Twelve Issues: A conference paper | Presented in Little Rock, AR, Iowa City, IA, Oxford, UK, Columbus, OH, Louisville, KY at conferences, and used as a case example in my book, Talented Children and Adults (1999/2007). |