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Williams, Janet. "Gifted and Talented Children in Australia: Trends and Developments." Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist 8, no. 1 (May 1991): 23–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0816512200026365.

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“Education is generally accepted as having, as one of its major functions, the development of every child's potential to the fullest extent possible. It follows, therefore, that gifted children should have their gifts extended by their schools” (Senate Select Committee Report, 1988, p.173). The Committee considers that by encouraging the talents of the most able, Australia will strengthen its most valuable natural resource (its people) and will be in a better position to contribute economically, intellectually, and artistically at an international level.
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Gibson, Kay L. "A Promising Approach for Identifying Gifted Aboriginal Students in Australia." Gifted Education International 13, no. 1 (May 1998): 73–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026142949801300111.

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Recently research was conducted in Queensland, Australia which was designed to describe a more effective approach for the identification of gifted students. The purpose of the research was to contribute to the improvement of current procedures used in the identification of gifted minority children, particularly urban Aboriginal gifted children. The five year study of Dr. Mary M. Frasier at the University of Georgia served as a basic design model for the research. This paper reports the findings from the two data collection activities of the research project. Firstly interviews of urban Aboriginal community members, including parents of gifted Aboriginal children, were undertaken followed by a state wide survey of Aboriginal teachers in Queensland. The aim of both was to gain information concerning how giftedness was perceived and described by urban Aboriginal community members. This information was then utilised to establish the viability of Frasier's work in the identification of Australian gifted Aboriginal students and to suggest modification to Frasier's model which would heighten its cultural relevance to the Aboriginal society
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Walsh, Rosalind L., and Jennifer L. Jolly. "Gifted Education in the Australian Context." Gifted Child Today 41, no. 2 (February 26, 2018): 81–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1076217517750702.

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The context in which gifted education operates in Australia provides for differing levels of identification and services. Lacking a federal mandate or funding, states and territories are responsible for addressing the needs of gifted students. Australia contributes to the gifted education research literature, focusing on acceleration, gifted girls, and teacher attitudes. The impacts of a relatively new national curriculum and assessment program have yet to be assessed in terms of their impact on gifted children. This article includes an overview of the policies, models, and barriers facing gifted education in Australia.
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Pirozzo, Ralph. "Australia: A Community-Based Programme for the Gifted." G/C/T 8, no. 4 (July 1985): 32–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107621758500800415.

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The curriculum required by the gifted is frequently described as qualitatively different. The underlying philosophical assumption is that the gifted child's intellectual ability does not respond to boring and repetitive curriculum tasks. Yet, there are major problems in planning and implementing a differentiated programme for these children due to negative attitudes toward the gifted, limited teachers' expertize in certain subject areas, and lack of school materials. These negative attitudinal factors represent the major obstacle to programming for the gifted because their needs are the lowest priority in most school systems. These negative societal attitudes stem from the public's equation of gifted education with notions of genetic superiority and the establishment of an elite class. Thus, whenever schools are unable/unwilling to provide for these children's needs, the community has an obligation to ensure that these children are provided with programmes that will enable them to achieve at their highest levels. It becomes evident that all available learning resoures must be tapped to enrich and extend these children. Community support is particularly appropriate because it encourages the community to become actively involved in the enhancement of its most valuable natural resource, its bright children. As well, this enables youngsters to interact with practising experts who are willing to share their specialized knowledge and their familiarity with the demands of various professions and occupations. Since 1979, I have demonstrated the feasibility of this notion through my involvement in a community-based enrichment programme. This article describes a rationale for the implementation of a community-based programme and details the procedures used to keep this programme functioning for the last five years.
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Allen, Jenny. "Meeting the Needs of Australian Rural Gifted Children: the Use of a Curriculum Enrichment Project (CEPPS) for Primary Schools in Western Australia." Gifted Education International 8, no. 1 (January 1992): 23–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026142949200800106.

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This paper discusses the issues of: Who should develop curriculum materials? What form should enrichment materials take? Which theoretical frameworks are appropriate? How should the content be selected? Gifted children's use of the CEPPS package in the Expressive Arts (interdisciplinary learning) is documented through outcomes related to the objectives of the learning materials. Future predictions indicate there is a need for independent learning packages to be developed for gifted children. (All illustrations are by pupils of 7–11 years of age).
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Imison, Katrina. "Teaching to Foster Talent Development: Vignettes of Gifted Children in Australia." Gifted Child Today 20, no. 3 (May 1997): 24–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107621759702000308.

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Zernetska, O. "William Wentworth – Democrat by Worldview, Australian Politician and Explorer by Calling." Problems of World History, no. 8 (March 14, 2019): 185–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.46869/2707-6776-2019-8-10.

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The article is dedicated to William Charles Wentworth, the leading Australian political figure during the first half of the 19th century, whose lifelong work for self-government culminated in the NewSouth Wales in 1855. While detecting his life-long activity we come to the conclusion that he was an exceptionally talented men: explorer, author, gifted barrister (he graduated from CambridgeUniversity with honours), landowner, and statesman. In 1819 he published a book “Statistical, Нistorical, and Political Description of The Colony of New South Wales and Its Dependant Settlements in Van Diemen’s Land” which was the first book of Australia written by native-born Australian. The analyses of this outstanding magnum opus, written by a young man before his thirties, allow to state that his book did much to stimulate emigration to Australia. It was reissued in revised and enlarged editions in 1820 and 1824. It is found out that while returning to Australia, Wentworth as a gifted orator and excellent journalist became the colony’s leading political figure of the 1820s and 1830s, calling for the abolition of convicts’ transportation and establishing representative government, freedom of the press and trial by jury. It is disclosed how he struggled for the Legislative Council (Parliament) and new Constitution in 1840s and 1850s; how he made primary education for all children in the colony a reality and did his utmost to open Sydney University. In sum: this great son of Australia accomplished everything he planned for his native land.
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Whitton, Diana. "Regular classroom practices with gifted students in Grades 3 and 4 in New South Wales, Australia." Gifted Education International 12, no. 1 (January 1997): 34–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026142949701200107.

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The Regular Classroom Practices Survey (RCPS) was conducted to determine the extent to which gifted and talented students received differentiated education in the regular classroom across New South Wales. This research paralleled work recently completed in the United States of America. The survey focused on information on the teachers, their classrooms and regions. Classroom practices, in relation to the curriculum modifications for gifted and average students, were analyzed. The survey sample was drawn from the three sectors of education, Government, Catholic and Independent schools, within the ten regions of New South Wales. This included 401 third and fourth grade teachers in government schools, 138 teachers in Catholic schools and 67 teachers in independent schools. The research questions that guided this study were: (1) Do teachers modify the curriculum content to meet the needs of gifted students? (2) Do teachers modify their instructional practices for gifted students? (3) Are there any organizational variations in planning to meet the educational needs of gifted children? (4) Are there differences in the types of regular classroom services provided for gifted students in relation to the type of school or region?
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Larsson, Yvonne. "Teachers' Attitudes and Perspectives on Educational Provisions for “Gifted” and “Talented” Children in New South Wales, Australia and Essex, England." Gifted Education International 6, no. 3 (January 1990): 174–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026142949000600311.

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This paper focuses on teacher attitudes to educational provisions for gifted and talented children in two countries. A questionnaire was distributed to 100 teachers in Sydney, New South Wales and to 100 teachers in Essex, England. Both groups represented a range of primary and secondary schools. Teachers had between 5 and 20 years experience and most were aged between 30 and 40 years. The common factor was acceptance of provisions within the comprehensive framework of education but rejection of any provisions that might be interpreted as elitist. It was also considered that there should be pre-service and in-service training in teaching methods for gifted education for all teachers so that the individual talents of children can be accommodated according to their needs within the comprehensive system.
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Lee, Libby. "Young Gifted Girls and Boys: Perspectives through the Lens of Gender." Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 3, no. 3 (October 2002): 383–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2002.3.3.6.

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In contemporary society we have become highly dependent on a technological, scientific and mathematically literate population. There has been considerable debate for many years about the lack of talented people entering professions associated with these literacies and about the level of understanding of science and technology in the general community. Since perceptions of and interest in mathematics, science and technology begin in early childhood, teachers of very young children play an important role in fostering and supporting these interests. The research problem investigated in this article emerged when the researcher became aware that teachers in Brisbane, Australia nominated as many as five times more boys than girls for a mathematics and science enrichment programme for gifted young children. Hence, teachers' conceptions of what it means to have high ability in mathematics and science in early childhood appeared to be influenced by teacher beliefs about gender. Single in-depth interviews were conducted with 16 early childhood teachers who nominated children for the above mentioned enrichment programme. Based on interview data, a model of teachers' conceptions of giftedness was developed, comprising seven categories of description or ways that teachers see the phenomenon of giftedness in relation to young children. A latter interpretative analysis of this model found that teachers' conceptions of giftedness are indeed gendered and that each of the seven categories of giftedness guides teacher behaviours or actions that directly disadvantage girls. This article explores this latter analysis and concludes that gender is a significant influence on teachers' conceptions of giftedness in young children.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Gifted children Australia"

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Hor, Su-yin Education Faculty of Arts &amp Social Sciences UNSW. "Exploring gifted primary students' perceptions of the characteristics of their effective teachers." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Education, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/24307.

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This study sought to explore the question of what personal and professional characteristics may be particularly relevant to effective teachers of the gifted, by investigating the characteristics of effective teachers identified in both the general teacher effectiveness literature and the gifted education literature, through the perceptions of gifted primary students about teachers they regarded as effective. A questionnaire was created for this study, comprised of items which represented characteristics identified from the literature review and determined to be relevant to students' experiences. This questionnaire was distributed to the sample of intellectually gifted primary students (n = 168), and their responses were examined for differences between moderately gifted (n = 74) and highly gifted primary students (n = 94), as well as female (n = 84) and male (n = 81) gifted primary students. This study also recorded gifted primary students' opinions regarding what they believe were the characteristics that made their nominated teachers so effective, through the use of an open-ended question in the questionnaire. This study found that the characteristics of effective teachers identified in both the general teacher effectiveness and the gifted education literatures were supported by gifted primary students' perceptions of their nominated teachers. This study also found differences between moderately gifted and highly gifted primary students, as well as gender differences on a number of characteristics. These differences support the need to examine, more carefully, teacher behaviour and strategies in the classroom for differences in how they may influence the learning of students of different levels of ability and gender. A qualitative analysis of gifted primary students' answers to the open-ended question also revealed in-depth information about how teachers' characteristics are related to each other, and how students perceive them to be effective, as well as suggesting characteristics that were not identified in the previous review of the literature.
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Chadwick, Felicia School of Education Studies UNSW. "An Australian perspective on talent development in music: The influence of environmental catalysts upon the provision of opportunities for learning, training and practice in the musical domain." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Education Studies, 2000. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/17624.

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The study explored the influence of environmental catalysts, upon the provision of field specific opportunities for learning, training, and practice, for a sample population of musically involved young Australians. The findings enhance understandings of the conditions in which children's musical aptitudes are developed. Research bases in the fields of gifted education and music education were employed to support the investigation. Components of Gagn??'s Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent (1995a) provided the theoretical framework for this investigation. Two survey questionnaires, completed by Australian parents (N = 194 and N = 182 respectively), sought information pertaining to the subject child's musical involvements and undertakings. Some details of the musical interests and involvements of the child's parents and siblings were also obtained. Quantitative and qualitative data contribute to an extensive profile of the types of music programs and provisions which support the normative and expert development of Australian children's musical behaviours. Parents' musical interests and involvements appear to have strongly influenced the choice of home-based recreational pursuits for their children. The convincingly articulated, positive, field specific views espoused by Australian parents appear to have been translated into the provision of multiple, simultaneous opportunities for their children to engage with musical undertakings. Notable amongst the data are the structured involvements of young musicians with music composition engagements. The data also indicate that many of the sample of Australian children received high levels of support and encouragement for musical undertakings from parents who were themselves musically interested and knowledgeable. Parental involvements with their children's music lesson and practice related engagements, were found to be characterised by features of deliberate practice. The home-based environments of young Australian musicians were found to be characterised by opportunities for exposure to rigorous and challenging musical engagements, undertaken at an optimally early age, thereby enhancing normative musical development. Such engagements provided the necessary foundation for expert levels of musical skill acquisition. An ascending progression of musical skill development was demonstrated to correspond to increasing age further reinforcing the developmental perspective on the acquisition of musical expertise. Some parents indicate that musical engagement has been pursued as a means of appropriately challenging children exhibiting the cognitive and affective characteristics of giftedness.
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Galitis, Ingrid. "A case study of gifted education in an Australian primary school : teacher attitudes, professional discourses and gender /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/5260.

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This thesis investigates the professional knowledge and views about gifted education held by teachers working in a suburban primary school in Melbourne, Australia. Examining discourses of giftedness and intelligence, it adopts a case study approach to explore teachers’ gendered understanding of these concepts four years after they undertook a program of professional development in gifted education during the late 1990s. The analysis of the case study is located in relation to historical as well as current policy and professional debates regarding the education of gifted children, and the context of broader contemporary educational reforms. During the 1990s, much educational reform in Australia, as elsewhere, was characterised by neo-liberal practices of devolution, and a greater emphasis on individual accountability that altered school management structures and directed curriculum practices towards a focus on outcomes-based education. The increasing scrutiny of teaching and learning became normalised as both teachers and students were regularly monitored and measured. Within the prevailing political and educational landscape, Victoria’s first gifted education policy was introduced in May 1995.
The study examined how teachers negotiated educational reforms and policy initiatives during a time of significant change and translated them into their own professional common sense and working knowledge. A qualitative methodology is adopted, and the research design encompasses close analysis of teachers’ narratives and content analysis of school policies and programs as well as informal and formal documentation and reports. Examination of the case study material is informed by a feminist approach and concern with practices of gender differentiation and inequality in education; the analysis is also influenced by key poststructuralist concepts of “discourses”, “regimes of truth” and “normalisation” drawn from the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault.
Three main lines of analysis are developed. First, I examine current meanings of, and discourses on, gifted education and their historical antecedents. I argue that gifted education practices emanate from modernist practices and that the constructs of intelligence and giftedness were enthusiastically adopted as technological tools to regulate and classify populations. I further argue that understanding these earlier views on intelligence and the “gifted child” remains important as these continue, often unwittingly, to infiltrate and shape teachers’ attitudes and knowledge, as well as the “regimes of truth” expressed in policy and professional discourses. Second, I propose that a deeply entrenched Australian egalitarian ethos has affected teachers’ views and practices, influencing how they navigate the field of gifted education, typically characterised as an elite form of educational provision. In some cases, this produces ambivalence about the value of gifted education, leading to educational practices that are at odds with gifted educational practices recommended by research. I argue that the program of gifted professional development did not alter deeply entrenched beliefs about gifted education, with teachers claiming personal experience and working knowledge as the crux to recognising and catering for difference. Third, I examine the socially gendered dimensions of these entrenched views and their impact on highly able girls. I argue that for teachers, the norm of the gifted child is gendered. Whilst girls can be bright or clever or smart, the idealised gifted child is more likely to be male.
This thesis offers an in-depth examination of the micro-practices of one school as it strives for excellence. It contributes insights into the impact of “topdown” policy and professional development on teachers’ working knowledge and professional practice. This study shows that while the imposed educational policies and gifted education programs provided information for teachers, they did not alter teachers’ fundamental belief systems, professional knowledge or gender differentiating teaching practices.
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Mulraney, Rosemary Anne, and n/a. "Community and teacher attitudes toward special educational provisions for gifted students in A.C.T. primary schools." University of Canberra. Education, 1986. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061026.130846.

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This decade has seen an increasing awareness by the Commonwealth Schools Commission, the ACT Schools Authority, educators and members of the community of students who are gifted in a diversity of areas. A number of programs designed to meet the special needs of gifted students have been developed in some primary schools in the A.C.T. and it is timely that the attitudes of principals, teachers and parents were assessed. To assess the attitudes of the three populations (principals, teachers and parents) toward general attitudes about gifted students, key aspects of planning and organisation of gifted programs, classroom teachers and their knowledge and need of assistance in gifted education; and to explore whether the three populations held different attitudes toward gifted students and the provision of specific programs to meet their special needs, the Field Study candidate developed and administered a questionnaire to members of the A.C.T. Association for Gifted and Talented Children, together with principals, teachers and parents in nineprimary schools in the A.C.T. The results of the questionnaire indicated that all three groups agreed with the proposition that every child was entitled to an educational program that would assist the child to develop to his / her fullest potential. Appropriate extension programs should be run for gifted students in the local primary school, with the involvement of the resource teacher and the assistance of personnel and locations outside of the local school when it was appropriate. Some reservations were expressed toward the level of parent participation in the identification procedure, program planning and program evaluation, and classroom teachers were seen to require assistance in the areas of identification, program planning and the evaluation of programs designed to meet the special needs of gifted students. The Field Study concludes that local A.C.T. primary schools could meet the special needs of gifted students. This could be achieved by principals, teachers and members of the School Board developing and implementing special educational programs by utilising Special Project funding, additional staff and professional development opportunities which are currently available in limited amounts through the ACT Schools Authority and the Commonwealth Schools Commission.
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Ross, Ruth O., and n/a. ""The extension group" - a part-time, withdrawal, enrichment program for gifted and talented children at Holt Primary School, A.C.T. : an action research study." University of Canberra. Education, 1985. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061107.160754.

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Over the past six years, a part-time withdrawal-from-mainstream-class enrichment program for gifted and talented children has been operating at the Holt Primary School in the Australian Capital Territory. In keeping with the neighbourhood school policy of the ACT Schools Authority, the program caters only for children within the school and has included those from grades three to six. Based on Renzulli's Enrichment Triad Model, the program has a thematic approach which provides opportunities for participants to pursue both group and individual research on topics of interest to them. Identified children remain in the program for as long as possible and some have continued for as long as three years when resources have been available. This Action Research Study by the Co-ordinator of the program describes the setting up, objectives, identification methods, resources and evaluation.
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Chadwick, Felicia. "An Australian perspective on talent development in music : the influence of environmental catalysts upon the provision of opportunities for learning, training, and practice in the musical domain /." 2000. http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN20010424.121726/index.html.

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Books on the topic "Gifted children Australia"

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1932-, Imison K., Endean L, and Smith D, eds. Gifted and talented children: A national concern. Toowoomba, Q[ld.]: Darling Downs Institute Press, 1986.

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Howieson, N. The identification of creatively gifted children in primary schools in Western Australia: Research project. [Western Australia]: Western Australian College of Advanced Education, 1986.

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Dreamscapes. Oxford: Isis, 2006.

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Caswell, Brian. Lisdalia. St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1994.

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Braggett, E. J. Talented, gifted, creative Australian writings: An annotated bibliography. [Canberra]: Commonwealth Schools Commission, 1986.

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Cameron, Alexandra. Rachael's gift. Sydney, NSW: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2014.

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Dubosarsky, Ursula. Reindeer's Christmas surprise. Crows Nest, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin, 2015.

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q National Conference on Gifted and Talented Children 1985 Toowoomba, K. Imison, L. Endean, and D. Smith. Gifted and Talented Children: A National Concern. Intl Specialized Book Service Inc, 1986.

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Exploring Gifted Education: Australian and New Zealand Perspectives. Routledge, 2018.

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Exploring Gifted Education: Australian and New Zealand Perspectives. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Book chapters on the topic "Gifted children Australia"

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Free, Sally-Ann. "Group Support for Parents of Gifted Children in the Western Region of Melbourne, Australia." In Giftedness and Talent, 75–95. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6701-3_5.

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"GIFTED EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA." In Exceptionally Gifted Children, 37–66. Routledge, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203036488-4.

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