Raising Expectations: Talent Development in Belfast

David Ryan and Joanne Wilson

Gifted and Talented International, 2009, vol. 24, issue 1, 107-118

Abstract: A unique talent development project took place in Belfast, Northern Ireland over the autumn (fall) term of 2007 that developed 60 young people from ten diverse schools (Special, Secondary, Grammar, Controlled (state schools) and Catholic Maintained). The project culminated in Manchester on 3 December 2007 when the Young People undertook a journey from Belfast to Manchester following in the footsteps of George Best – the famous Manchester United and Northern Ireland professional footballer. The event attracted a huge media interest – being covered by Northern Ireland's Ulster Television News programme, the leading Northern Ireland Nl newspaper - The Belfast Telegraph, The Manchester Evening News, Manchester United Television – Sky channel, Manchester Evening News and BBC Manchester. A research study was undertaken in parallel with the project to quantify the young people's self-image, abilities and belief in achievement before, during and after the project.

Date: 2009
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/15332276.2009.11674865 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:ugtixx:v:24:y:2009:i:1:p:107-118

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/ugti20

DOI: 10.1080/15332276.2009.11674865

Access Statistics for this article

Gifted and Talented International is currently edited by Sheyla Blumen

More articles in Gifted and Talented International from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().