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What is the problem? “The more I know, the more I am not wanted!” School was no longer a welcome place in her mind. She was called names. She was five years old. She could read and do math at third grade level. She could play Bach on the piano and indulge in a game of chess with adults. She had visually memorized every species of birds and butterflies. She understood that there’s a world out there beyond her own. Her teacher said, “She has the maturity beyond her age. Others have not outgrown further than ‘me’.” At six, Johnson and Woodcock Battery of Tests measured her IQ at 140. At that time, a teacher called her “bossy”. ISCRESPO
Gifted Education Theoretical Adequacy and Ethical Merits Within Frank’s Framework By Irma S.Z.B. Crespo
Theoretical Adequacy • Linkage between desired outcomes and strategies employed. - Reasons and justifications - Contextual background, pressing needs etc. - Tangential factors (Kubow & Fossum, 2007, p.274) ISCRESPO
The Normal Curve of Intelligence ISCRESPO
Gifted Education in the U.S. ISCRESPO
Final Thoughts: Ethical Merits • Gifted education is: = humanitarian = a crest of common good = a representation of equality ISCRESPO
Words To Live By • It is detrimental for society to lose its gifted youngsters: the invaluable potential of “the music that was never composed, the medical cure that was never discovered, the political strategy that might have averted a war” will be thrown into oblivion. (Silverman, n.d., p. 9) ISCRESPO
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