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ERIC Number: EJ1349825
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Sep
Pages: 8
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0261-4294
EISSN: EISSN-2047-9077
Identification for Utilization, Not Merely Possession, of Gifts: What Matters Is Not Gifts but Rather Deployment of Gifts
Sternberg, Robert J.
Gifted Education International, v38 n3 p354-361 Sep 2022
The focus of the field of giftedness is on the wrong thing. Instead of focusing on identifying who is gifted, the field should identify how people will deploy their gifts and educate students to deploy their gifts in ways that will make the world a better place. In this article, I present at least a partial taxonomy of how gifts can be deployed and discuss how the taxonomy can be used to shift the emphasis in the field. In particular, I discuss nine types of giftedness: Type 1--unidentified; Type 2--inert (largely undeployed) giftedness; Type 3--fully transactional giftedness (where one gives something back in return for getting something); Type 4--self-transformational giftedness (where one transforms oneself but not others); Type 5--other-transformational giftedness (where one transforms others but not oneself); Type 6--full transformational giftedness (where one transforms both oneself and others); Type 7--self-destructive giftedness (where one's gifts are deployed self-destructively); Type 8--other-destructive giftedness (where one's gifts are deployed toward destroying others); and Type 9--full pseudo-transformational giftedness (where one's gifts are destructive of oneself and others).
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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