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ERIC Number: EJ1396382
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 7
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0278-3193
EISSN: EISSN-1940-865X
Evolving Implicit Metaphors for Understanding Giftedness: From Banks to Foundations
Sternberg, Robert J.
Roeper Review, v45 n3 p188-194 2023
Two implicit metaphors can be seen as having dominated the study of the gifted--the savings bank and the investment bank. In the savings-bank metaphor, people have differential levels of IQ or general intelligence, which is viewed as determining whether they are gifted. Their cognitive ability is their metaphorical "money in the bank." In the investment-bank metaphor, people are seen as having differential investments in varied kinds of abilities and talents. Their pattern of abilities is their metaphorical portfolio of investments. A better implicit metaphor might be the foundation, however, whose effectiveness is judged by the worthiness of the transformational causes to which it contributes and the effectiveness of the use of the foundation's assets toward these causes. A person is gifted by virtue not merely of the assets they have but of how they transformationally deploy those assets.
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Language: English
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