Abstract
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- Volume 31
- Issue 4
- Publication Date: Fall 2008
- Page Number(s): 44-45
- DOI: 10.4219/gct-2008-801
Social and Emotional Needs: Contemporary Issues in the Psychosocial Development of Students With Gifts and Talents
Tracy L. Cross
As adults committed to improving the lives of students, we sometimes come to believe that our children’s lives are very much like our own. In some cases I agree. However, increasingly I have come to see evidence of lived experiences of today’s youth that are different than in prior generations. The accumulation of these differences, affected by historical events, economic swings, new diseases, medical discoveries, political leaders, and so on, lead to an aggregate experience that can be quite different from the previous generation. To work effectively with students with gifts and talents, we must be active in our pursuit of knowledge about these differences. In this column I will review a series of issues that are quite contemporary and somewhat unique to the lives of students with gifts and talents. In essence, I will be covering five issues that run the gamut from being international and historical to those things that are very specific to the individual person.
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In the Classroom: Gifted Students, Philosophy—and the Existence of God.