Kurup, Anitha (2021) Challenges to identify and mentor gifted children in developing countries: the Indian experience. Current Science, 120 (3). pp. 472-478. ISSN 0011-3891
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| Abstract: | The National Education Policy 2020 (NEP-2020) has recognized the need to identify and nurture gifted and talented children beyond the school curriculum. Through systematic research, the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru has developed multiple protocols for identifying and multi-level, multi-stage mentoring of gifted children. This study argues that there is need for a paradigm shift in the identification process that predominantly uses psychometric measurements in the portfolio that captures the actual data points of gifted children. This is particularly relevant for developing countries like India, which has a diverse population predominantly from disadvantaged communities. Establishing norms for standardized psychometric tests developed for the western populations will have inherent limitations to identifying the gifted children in multi-lingual and multi-cultural contexts. Needless to state, India has far too few trained psychologists to accomplish this task. |
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| Item Type: | Journal Paper |
| Additional Information: | Copyright belongs to the Publisher |
| Keywords: | Developing Countries, Gifted Children, Identification, Mentoring, Psychometric measurements |
| Subjects: | School of Social Sciences > Education Programmes > Education Programme > Education for the Gifted Programmes > Education Programme |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2021 07:18 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2021 09:45 |
| Official URL: | https://www.currentscience.ac.in/php/inst_authors.... |
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| Funders: | Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India (2011-2015) and Tata Consultancy Services (2016-2019) |
| Projects: | NIAS Programme on Education for the Gifted and Talented (NIAS-EGT) |
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| URI: | http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/2059 |
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