Giftedness and Gifted Education

Giftedness and gifted education: the need for a paradigm change

Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education: A Proposed Direction Forward Based on Psychological Science.

For nearly a century, scholars have sought to understand, measure, and explain giftedness. Succeeding theories and empirical investigations have often built on earlier work, complementing or sometimes clashing over conceptions of talent or contesting the mechanisms of talent development. Some have even suggested that giftedness itself is a misnomer, mistaken for the results of endless practice ...

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...

Twelve myths of gifted education

The paper examines the research evidence for many of the issues that are perennially debated with respect to the education of gifted students. The first cluster of contentious topics focuses on how giftedness is recognized; the second on the social and emotional wellbeing of gifted children; and the third on educational provisions for gifted students. The preponderance of misconceptions on thes...

Ability grouping for mathematically gifted adolescent boys

Embedded in the contemporary issue of gifted education is the contentious notion of ability grouping. The debate surrounding appropriate educational provision for gifted students continues to argue the cognitive and affective influences of ability grouping on gifted students. While recognising the various forms of intellectual giftedness, analysis of the research about mathematically gifted stu...