Balanced research and practice High ability is still mainly connotated with academic domains and research based data are numerous in this field. But when it comes to vocational trainings or professional talents research is comparatively sparse. ...
Practice based Dropouts and their surroundings often feel desperate. They feel like they have an inadequate skillset to manage the complex learning situation (of the youngsters). In this talk, based on qualitative research in the Netherlands and personal contacts with (the network of) gifted students/dropouts, Akke...
Balanced research and practice In this multimodal, performative talk, we will meet an existentially estranged, gifted young adult. We are going to discover through storytelling that this person will be invited by his mentor to start a dialogue with four representatives of nature. They will invite...
Balanced research and practice In research, it is common to define giftedness in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions – a ‘classical definition’ (Andersen 2002). In practice, such definitions are problematic because they are either too narrow, too wide, and involve an arbitrary cut-off. In two...
Practice based Dropouts and their surroundings often feel desperate. They feel like they have an inadequate skill set to manage the complex learning situation of the youngsters. In this workshop, based on qualitative research in the Netherlands and personal contacts with (the network of) gifted students/dropouts,...