Gifted Students as Path-Breakers: The Israeli Experience

Shlomit Rachmel and Rachel Zorman

Gifted and Talented International, 2003, vol. 18, issue 1, 36-43

Abstract: Path-breaking leaders produce new knowledge that changes conceptualizations in an area that is valued by society, enabling the field to progress in leaps and bounds. Gifted children are usually excellent consumers of knowledge, a necessary but not sufficient condition for path-breaking. How can we encourage gifted students to become path-breakers in their areas of interest? In this paper, we explore the characteristics of path-breakers and their possible antecedents in childhood and adolescence. Moreover, we portray how the Department for Gifted Students in the Ministry of Education in Israel promotes various programs to provide gifted students with the cognitive skills to enhance social and personality qualities that are essential to path-breaking leadership in various fields.

Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1080/15332276.2003.11673006

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