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Article: Can we, should we, need we agree on a definition of giftedness?
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- Roeper Review
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- September 22, 2004
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No, no, no!!! I am so tired of hearing the refrain, "How can we expect to solve--, when the field can't even agree on a definition of giftedness!" Why do we assume that we must define something before we can begin to understand it? Is that assumption a holdover from the predominantly behaviorist orientation of the 1950s when everything had to be measurable? Haven't we gotten past the paradigm of defining, measuring, then studying phenomena? If physicists had to agree on a definition of the nature of the universe before they could study it, we would still be working on pre-atomic theory.
There is also the possibility that we can only define something after we ...