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Envisioning the Journey: Conceptualizing a History of Giftedness

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Your Passport to Gifted Education serves as a ‘passport’ for parents, teachers, and other stakeholders to embark on a journey into unknown territory that reaches beyond the walls of a regular classroom. To identify and provide an appropriate education for exceptional learners, a school district must first confront the problematic term of ‘gifted’ and decide upon a definition. This chapter presents a brief international history to introduce giftedness as culture specific, followed by a brief history of giftedness in the United States. Although the No Child Left Behind Act, like Europe’s Education for All initiative, became a force to move the goal posts to support equality of education for all students, it did not provide for the brightest ones. New advocacy and resource allocation to include gifted children were required. Based upon a 2010 international survey research report and Pisa results, this chapter argues the need for staff development to prepare our brightest children for their future in a competitive global society.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

—Marcel Proust (Writer). [Online], http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/marcelprou107111.html, as accessed on 9/6/16.

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Leavitt, M. (2017). Envisioning the Journey: Conceptualizing a History of Giftedness. In: Your Passport to Gifted Education. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47638-4_1

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