Congratulations to our graduate- Liane Regnard- for her most recent achievement. Liane has published her Thesis with Academia.edu. You can find the publication- “A Global Perspective: Gifted Learners enlisted in mainstream schools- without the necessary provisions- will be negatively affected beyond their schooling days” in Academica.edu- a platform where academics publish and share their research papers. The abstract can be found below:
Abstract:
From a personal perspective- I have witnessed the detrimental affect mainstream schooling has had on gifted children. This personal perspective has helped to identify that gifted children attending a mainstream school generally results in a low self-esteem- depression or other mental issues- which is often only diagnosed at a later stage in life.
The purpose of this paper is to understand the long-term effects of placing gifted children into mainstream schools without the necessary provisions- as well as to raise awareness of gifted children and to identify possible solutions to ensure a gifted child is not discriminated against and is able to develop wholly to the best of their ability.
This paper covers research from twelve countries scattered across the globe- to try and ensure a global perspective is obtained- and allowing one to take into consideration gifted persons in a multi-cultural and multi-ethnicity environment under different political inferences.
Ideally- this paper will spark an urgency for a more in-depth study over a longer period of time with an excess of a thousand participants spanning at least 100 countries- or alternatively- it should encourage each country to do their own study- and to take remedial action based on it as a matter of urgency.
You can find her published Thesis on the following link:
Liane Regnard has completed a Bachelor’s program in Education at Atlantic International University.
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