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Article: Gifted-child pedagogy: meaningful chimera? (Point/Counterpoint).
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- Roeper Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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In a free ranging discussion with the editorial board of Roeper Review about topics emerging in our field, I mentioned the phrase gifted-child pedagogy. The editor asked me to write a commentary on the subject.
"Gifted-child pedagogy" (GCP) is an intriguing phrase. Two of my enduring interests--gifted children and pedagogy--are combined. The positioning of the words indicates that "gifted child" modifies "pedagogy" so the phrase denotes a relationship. Graphically, I picture a Venn diagram in which "gifted child" forms one circle containing data on those persons, "pedagogy" forms the other containing information on teaching, and at some point the circles ...