Editorial: The gifted child.

The Gifted Child

mass production and industrial organisation is neglecting its greatest resource?gifted children and young people. It is interesting that the concept of "gifted" which guided the collection and analysis of material during the two years' research which preceded the publication of the book, was deliberately not confined to the kind of brilliance revealed by intelligence testing, and that considera...

Editorial: The abused child--physicians' obligations.

The gifted: Identity construction through the practice of gifted education

Over the past two decades in Australia, the field of gifted education has expanded considerably. The term ‘giftedness’ has effectively entered mainstream discourse. The field of gifted education, which nowadays operates as a compensatory function of mass education, is comprised of groups of people who broadly share in the concept of giftedness but contest, through discourse, its meanings and pr...

Educating the Gifted.

The very subject of giftedness is fraught with contradiction and controversy. On the one hand, we often encounter misunderstanding, envy, and perceived elitism—and on the other, admiration, dependency, and respect. Little wonder that our K–12 education system has not yet determined how best to nurture extraordinary individuals so that they can become extraordinary contributors to society—and fe...

Guest editorial: classification in child psychiatry.