The Challenge of Gifted Education in Brazil

Abstract

Brazil is having to contend with a diversity of aims in education in its effort to promote education of the gifted. The arguments for egalitarianism in education or elitism are used by both proponents and opponents amongst administrators, teachers and parents. This diverse country is striving to achieve some measure of consensus with regard to issues of definition, identification and curriculum extension. The writer, however, stresses the importance of the element of Creativity in both the identification of special talent and in the nurturing of that talent.