This paper discusses the changing aspects of gifted education over the 40 years with relation to definition, identification and provision. The author shows how the field has broadened to embrace a more holistic and dynamic approach in which the complexity of human potential is accepted and the importance of family, community and school influence is recognized as being of equal importance in achieving full development of individuals.
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