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Practices and Development of Gifted and Talented Education

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International Handbook of Educational Research in the Asia-Pacific Region

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The challenges of meeting the needs of gifted and talented children attract growing attention in the fields of educational psychology, curriculum instruction and special education. Focusing on the various research and policy issues, this article highlights the complexity of gifted and talented education by illustrating the multidimensional development and changing notions of giftedness in selected education systems in the Asia-Pacific region. Some practices and research work on gifted and talented education in the sub-regions and countries of China, including mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (hereafter Hong Kong), Republic of Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand are discussed for global sharing generally and for sharing within the Asia-Pacific region in particular.

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  1. Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Sin Kuen-Fung

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  1. Flinders University Institute of International Education, Australia

    John P. Keeves

  2. National Institute for Educational Policy Research of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

    Ryo Watanabe

  3. UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Education, Bonn, Germany

    Rupert Maclean

  4. Griffith University, Southport, Australia

    Peter D. Renshaw

  5. University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Colin N. Power

  6. New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Wellington, New Zealand

    Robyn Baker

  7. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    S. Gopinathan  & Ho Wah Kam  & 

  8. Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong

    Yin Cheong Cheng

  9. Institute of International Education, Stockholm University, Sweden

    Albert C. Tuijnman

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Kuen-Fung, S. (2003). Practices and Development of Gifted and Talented Education. In: Keeves, J.P., et al. International Handbook of Educational Research in the Asia-Pacific Region. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3368-7_13

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