Public seminar
30 years of international research into gifted education:
What can Hong Kong learn?
Prof Deborah Eyre
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Vice-President World Council for Gifted and Talented Children
Chair : Dr Shane Phillipson
Deborah Eyre is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, Professor of Education at the University of Warwick and Vice President of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children (WCGTC). A widely published academic working in the fields of gifted education and education policy she is a policy adviser to UK government and adviser a number of governments in the Far East, Middle East and Europe.
Professor Eyre serves on the Board of the UK Teacher Development Agency (TDA) which is responsible for teacher training and CPD across England and also the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) which trains School Principals and other school leaders. She was recently appointed as strategy adviser to King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity, Saudi Arabia, to the Advisory Board of the Centre for Talented Youth, Johns’ Hopkins’ University, Baltimore, USA, as Trustee of the Inspiring Futures Foundation (IF), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Abstract
This seminar will present the findings from an international review of major themes in gifted education. This meta-analysis of the main research papers published over the last thirty years identified six major themes in the field of gifted education and nineteen sub-themes. The seminar will consider key findings within these themes and highlight recurrent issues and tensions in the field. It will relate the research output from Hong Kong to the themes and suggest possible research areas for the future.
The seminar will appeal to students, professional teachers, school principles, curriculum officers, researchers in education and policy makers.
26th February 09 (Thurs)
6:00 – 7:30 pm
D1-LP-07
Organized by the EPCL Department, Faculty of Education Studies, HKIEd