What is it about?
The perception and our understanding of what is described as ‘talent’ are a social product, that is, it is culture-dependent, but it does have some basic characteristics which are universal and which help us understand what is meant by the nomenclature ’talent’ both in the past and the present. Talents become talent because of their netting way of thinking. They connect everything to the goal to be achieved. All the rest that has been described in the literature is to serve this attitude. However, talent is not a homogeneous concept, even though it is often depicted as such in talent support, scientific studies of talent and talent models alike. Talents with different development histories have different needs and the environment necessary for development can differ substantially by age and talent forms. Consequently, provision should not be homogeneous, either.
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Why is it important?
Talent provision is still based on the idea that we know what the talent needs, but we have to change, and turn to be humble, and serve talents with lots of opportunities, and not define the opportunities for the talent.
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I am eager to change the 20th-century paternalist education and with it the talent provision to a more harmonic cooperation based approach. We all have a genius, an inner guide, but not all can be talents especially because of the main environment agents: parents, peers and teachers. They and many experts and specialists want us to be successful the way they think we should be successful.
Dr Eva Gyarmathy
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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This page is a summary of: Talent’s network way of thinking, Gifted Education International, December 2014, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0261429414557590.
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