Abstract
Joy is a 22-year-old female in her second year at a teachers' college in Israel. She was identified as gifted at age 8 but dropped out of the program, as happens quite frequently in the Israeli programs for gifted students. Like many adults who have been identified as gifted in childhood, both in Israel and elsewhere, Joy has gotten rid of her "gifted identity." This paper sketches the main stages and processes--familial, social, and educational--that contributed to how Joy changed from a very lively, talkative, and curious young girl to a student in a mediocre institution with low prospects of realizing her former giftedness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 89-108 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Advanced Development |
| Volume | 14 |
| State | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- School dropouts
- Teachers colleges
- Gifted children
