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M. Alper Yalçinkaya – History of Education, 2024
In the early 1960s, the Ford Foundation funded numerous projects in Turkey, primarily concerning science education and science policy. Related to the post-Sputnik debates on "scientific manpower needs," and modernisation theory's emphasis on "industrialising elites" in the developing world, these projects were the products of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Philanthropic Foundations, Scientists
Samo Varsik; Julia Gorochovskij – OECD Publishing, 2023
Intersectionality highlights that different aspects of individuals' identities are not independent of each other. Instead, they interact to create unique identities and experiences, which cannot be understood by analysing each identity dimension separately or in isolation from their social and historical contexts. Intersectional approaches in this…
Descriptors: Intersectionality, Classification, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Bildiren, Ahmet; Çitil, Mahmut – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the education of gifted children in Turkey during 1923-2020 from an historical perspective and to evaluate the current practices in gifted education. Drawing from the literature review, we first report on the policies and the legal and corporate advancements implemented in the field of gifted education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Educational History
OECD Publishing, 2021
With most students around the world having experienced remote learning over the past year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of teachers and schools has become all the more evident. Temporary school closures underline how richly students benefit from being in school with their teachers and classmates. "Positive, High-achieving…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Role, Teacher Role, Time Management
Birgili, Bengi; Çalik, Basak – Online Submission, 2013
The paper provides a critical overview about teaching children in regular classrooms, designing and enriching curricula for gifted children and using multiple intelligence theory as teaching mathematics by giving several examples. Teaching mathematics or science to gifted children doesn't seem easy because every student is different than each…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Teaching Methods, Multiple Intelligences
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Baslanti, Ugur – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2008
This study extends the work of Baslanti and McCoach (2006), which aimed to identify the characteristics of gifted underachievers at the university level and the reasons for their underachievement using the School Attitude Assessment Survey-Revised (SAAS-R). In this study, underachievement refers to a discrepancy between outstanding achievement…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, College Students, Student Attitudes, Attitude Measures