The education of gifted and talented pupils is an established
domain of study but research in the area has increased
dramatically, particularly in the past fifteen years. The reason
for this burgeoning interest relates principally not to
conventional educational concerns but rather to the desire of
governments around the world to maximize intellectual capital
better to compete in a globalized economy. Nurturing those with
exceptional ability is now seen as a societal necessity rather than
simply an educational objective. A secondary aspect of this
societal interest relates to equity; gifted and talented programmes
are at the forefront of national and international educational
policy and they are increasingly being adopted in the pursuit of
meritocracy as a mechanism to improve life chances and to stimulate
social mobility.
As serious thinking about and around the education of the gifted
and talented continues to flourish, this new title in the Routledge
series, Major Themes in Education, meets the need for an
authoritative reference work to codify and make sense of the field
s literature. Edited by Deborah Eyre, the founding Director of the
world-renowned Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth at the
University of Warwick, this new Major Work brings together in four
volumes the foundational and the best cutting-edge scholarship. The
editor has drawn on the most important and influential research
from a broad range of countries to create a one-stop mini library
which describes and analyses the rationale and purposes of gifted
education. Particular attention has been paid to the controversies
surrounding definitions and the identification of giftedness, and
the collection provides a substantial overview of best practice in
relation to education in schools and classrooms, as well as special
programmes. The material gathered also closely considers the
substantial hurdles that may face children identified as especially
gifted.
Gifted and Talented Education is fully indexed and has a
comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which
places the collected material in its historical and intellectual
context. It is an essential library purchase and is destined to be
valued by scholars and students as well as by educational
policy-makers as a vital reference work and research tool.
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