Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

Latin American Faculty for Social Science in Ecuador (FLACSO), Ecuador

[ 1 ] - O1: Defining Talent: A Cultural Perspective

What is talent? How can it be identified? Who is responsible for identifying it? Are there universally valued talents, or are they all culturally bound? There are at least three different levels of analysis to explore these questions. On the government level, we must philosophically decide on how our country chooses and expresses its values through what is taught, to whom, and for what periods ...

[ 2 ] - O7: Research on the Brain and Learning: Plasticity and Variability and Their Impact on Talent Identification

This talk will introduce the idea that talent development is related to learning where learning is the physiological process of neuro-plastic changes in the brain. To develop talents, individuals must move from novice or beginner’s status to expertise levels of knowledge or skills in a particular domain. Learning depends on maximizing an individual’s potential through the experience...

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