SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE GIFTED: A CRITIQUE OF SOME ARGUMENTS

Authors

  • Denis Cassivi Mount Saint Vincent University

Abstract

Concern that the more gifted children are not getting due attention is one of the current novelties in the shop-window of educational discussion. The issue has some genuine challenge and significance for education; but a commodity that has been in short supply for some time and for which the public has acquired a genuine appetite is in serious danger of being too eagerly pulled from the oven halfbaked. Denis Cassivi here performs a service ail too rarely offered in education, a timely and comprehensive critique of an emerging fad, with the object not of destroying it but of saving it. By raising questions about the assumption that special education is needed for special groups, his arguments anticipate some of the problems to which the Journal's next issue, on "Special Education," will address itself.

Author Biography

Denis Cassivi, Mount Saint Vincent University

Denis Cassivi was formerly co-ordinator of Continuing Teacher Education at the Atlantic Institute of Education, Halifax. He is now lecturing part-time at Mount Saint Vincent University and is writing a book on the conceptual basis of education in Atlantic Canada

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Published

1979-04-01

How to Cite

Cassivi, D. (1979). SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE GIFTED: A CRITIQUE OF SOME ARGUMENTS. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 14(002). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7276

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 002 (1979)

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