ERIC Number: EJ1147584
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 13
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What Contributes to Gifted Adolescent Females' Talent Development at a High-Achieving, Secondary Girls' School?
Tweedale, Charlotte; Kronborg, Leonie
Gifted and Talented International, v30 n1-2 p6-18 2015
The purpose of this research was to examine what contributes to gifted adolescent females' talent development at a high-achieving girls' school. Using Kronborg's (2010) Talent Development Model for Eminent Women as a theoretical framework, this research examined the conditions that supported and those that hindered the participants' talent development in the setting of their secondary girls' school. In this qualitative study, semistructured interviews were conducted with six gifted females, 17-20 years of age, who were all identified as gifted and who achieved highly in one or more talent domains during their years at their former high-achieving secondary girls' school. The findings of this research support the theoretical framework. The themes found to support these participants' talent development were psychological qualities, individual abilities, opportunities to achieve in talent domain(s), allies in the family, allies beyond the family, passionate engagement in talent domain, and feelings and experiences of difference. These findings add support to the themes Kronborg (2010) found in her Talent Development Model of Eminent Women.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Females, Single Sex Schools, Talent Development, High Achievement, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews, Gifted, Adolescents, Young Adults, Psychological Characteristics, Ability, Opportunities, Family Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Experience
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Zealand
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