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  • The author analyzes two key Pacific Rim cultures (China and Japan) relative to how they view and develop giftedness and talent. Stevenson suggests that the US may be on the wrong track as a society in its approaches to defining and nurturing giftedness and talent. Through these case presentations, Stevenson investigates the impact of society and culture on the emergence and shaping of talent. He raises questions about defining giftedness and educating gifted children, and relates the answers to the setting of societal goals. In trying to ensure that their most able students will further the culture's progress, each of the 3 cultures has taken a very different path, from ignoring the term giftedness altogether but educating all students with the hope that some will emerge (Japan); to heeding the term and educating this group differentially but enforcing their common socialization (China); to halfway acknowledging the term, halfway attempting differentiated education, and halfway encouraging common socialization in the US. An interesting area for future research is which approach best matches the values of a particular society and culture. Has each country selected its "best" or its "only" method because of the maximum benefits of interaction for able learners with that culture's parameters? As Stevenson points out, we have much to learn from what we can see occurring in other cultures, about best practices as well as unproductive strategies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: introduction)

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