What is it about?
The HighScope Summer Camp for Teenagers founded by David P Weikart in 1963, and operated until 2002, was an international, inclusive gifted education program that aided many young people, including those from disadvantaged social strata, in their personal development and shaped them in a special way. The six-week program stood for a high degree of structure and high expectations from the youth with regard to active thinking, problem solving and responsible action in the sciences, arts, and in social intercourse. Diversity and social justice were organically integrated, as was closeness to nature and a hands-on approach. The author worked on David P. Weikart’s team during the summer of 1984 and then helped to found a similar program in Germany. The author’s personal HighScope experience remained intact over the decades and an effective background source of inspiration and orientation for his work in special and inclusive education.
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Why is it important?
Summer Camps like the HighScope Camp for gifted teenagers were greenhouses for new educational developments, for experiential learning, for hands-on learning, in an international group of young people from all over the world.
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It is important to document David P. Weikart´s and his colleagues´ achievements for the future of education and to learn from these experiences. To work on his team was extremely inspiring. Today the Gold Open Access procedure was started, so that in the near future everybody will have free access to this work.
Professor Joachim Broecher
University of Flensburg
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This page is a summary of: How David P Weikart’s HighScope Summer Camp for (Gifted) Teenagers became a sustainable model for my later work in special education and inclusive education, Gifted Education International, March 2014, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0261429414526655.
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