Talent Development in European Higher Education Honors programs in t
This book examines the much-debated question of how to unleash the potential of young people with promising intellectual abilities and motivation. It looks at the increasingly important topic of excellence in education, and the shift in focus towards the
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Talent Development in European Higher Education Honors Programs in the Benelux, Nordic and German-Speaking Countries
Talent Development in European Higher Education
Dr. Marca V.C. Wolfensberger
Talent Development in European Higher Education Honors Programs in the Benelux, Nordic and German-Speaking Countries
Marca V.C. Wolfensberger Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen & Utrecht University The Netherlands
The Sirius Program assigned Marca Wolfensberger to carry out this research. Cartography: C&M-Carto - Geosciences - UU [8684]. ISBN 978-3-319-12918-1 ISBN 978-3-319-12919-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-12919-8
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Foreword
Education is a field that is prone to waves of popular initiatives and priorities, some of them transformative and lasting, others the source of persistent debate and scrutiny, and some gone the way of dinosaurs in the shifting landscape of pedagogical research and practice. One topic that has received continuous and considerable attention over many years is how to encourage, support, and reward talent development among highly motivated, high-achieving students. Interestingly, much of the scholarship in the field has been directed at gifted programs for youths in grade schools and high schools, where issues of differentiation have persisted over time. In higher education, most of the work has come from the area of honor
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