Contexts for Aspiration Development and Self-Fulfillment: International Comparisons

Don Ambrose

Gifted and Talented International, 2005, vol. 20, issue 2, 60-69

Abstract: Poverty strongly suppresses the development of an individual’s aspirations, capacities and self-fulfillment. International comparisons of socioeconomic development and policy implications in diverse nations reveal extreme disparities among nations as contexts for child development. These contexts range from affluent to destitute and from egalitarian to highly stratified. An aspiration-development model serves as a lens for analysis of these diverse national contexts and their suppressive or supportive effects on the aspirations, talent development, and self-fulfillment of deprived and affluent children. Evolving trends in these large-scale contexts indicate the likelihood of even more severe aspirational suppression in the near future. Implications for education of the gifted and talented include the need to combat insular dogmatism. Educators of the gifted also must strike a fine balance between the development of individual creativity and the encouragement of relational altruism.

Date: 2005
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