Literature Review On Gifted Education

underrepresentation of minority students in gifted education: Problems and promises in recruitment and retention. The Journal of Special Education, 22, 4-14. Ford (1998) uses data from the ERIC database, the U.S. Office of Civil Rights (OCR), and numerous states to create a meta-analysis review paper. The author addresses the question, “Why has the issue of recruiting and retaining minority students remained a topic of concern?” In reviewing the literature and data, Ford (2008) reveals the need for

Section one is for identifying information of the student; while section two is where the assessor records the student’s raw scores. Section three plots the results of the GATES in a clear illustration to show the student’s performance against other gifted and talented students. Section four, five, and six all further detail the raw score of the student by converting the raw score into percentiles, etc. Once the scores are completed they can be assessed against the individual scales. Based on the student’s

This essay will focus on the inclusive practice in relation to the early childhood education context and particularly to the special educational needs of the gifted children. This will also cover the policies/legislation, current research, national and international perspectives of inclusive practice in early childhood education. The complexities and practicalities of inclusion in terms of learning opportunities and experiences, environmental considerations and peer relationships would be critically

in 2015 (NAGC, n.d.). In short, the federal government’s support for gifted education has been inconsistent at best, and when compared to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which "guarantees all children between the ages of three and twenty-one with specifically identified disabilities a 'free appropriate public education' in the least restrictive environment in conformance with an Individualized Education Program” (Ward, 2005, p. 58) funding and support by federal government

family, friends and social settings. In particular this review will focus on parenting styles and their correlation to parent-child attachment. The review will focus on the four main parenting styles authoritarian, authoritative, permissive and neglect and examine the effectiveness of these parenting styles on parent-child attachment. Then the review will further examine these parenting styles on themes that emerged throughout the literature reviewed. The themes are: the child’s perception of parenting

Echo H. Wu Hong Kong Institute of Education This paper explores the influence of parenting beliefs and practices on children’s talent development through a specific perspective of several Chinese American families with gifted children. In-depth interviews were employed to collect data from the parents, and research questions focused on the daily practice of parenting and parents’ beliefs concerning how to nurture high achievement among children. Findings of this study include evidence of a sense

globalization trend, development of human capital, implementation of the reform on the support and development of schools for gifted students and the poor results of Kazakhstani students in PISA. Since this paper is focused on research projects in the framework of gifted education, it is essential to determine the concepts of “children as researchers” and “gifted education” by answering the question “What” and then, discuss the reasons of “Why”. The historical

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this relationship. They go on to focus on reviewing existing literature to reveal that “race salience and racial group identification is higher in the American South relative to other regions” (Grissom, Nicholson-Crotty, & Nicholson-Crotty, 2009, p.3).

Bruno Bettelheim says, “If we hope to live not just moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives” (Bettelheim 2). ”when children are young, it is literature that carries such information best” (Bettelheim 4). In literary circles, mention of Rowling or her work is likely to raise some tempers. Critics find her work “antithetical to established literary values, sustained by clearly monetary interests