Permission to be gifted
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Joan Freeman
Professor Joan Freeman is a distinguished psychologist working in the development of human abilities to their highest levels. She has conducted and supervised substantial research, notably her continuing study of gifted children since 1974, and has published widely in this area, including 16 books. She has been honoured with The Lifetime Achievement Award for 2007 from the British Psychological Society.
By Joan Freeman
Published on 11/17/2007
No conception of giftedness or talent works in a cultural vacuum... A
cross-cultural view picks up a wide variety of international templates
for the identification and education of the gifted and talented, which
are sometimes entirely opposing.
The
wider view can demonstrate unrecognised stereotyping and expectations,
and illustrate the often serious effects of social influences on
opportunities for the development of high-level potential and its
promotion throughout life.