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  • Comments on an article by Albert Zieglera & Shane N. Phillipson (see record 2012-16824-002). Ziegler & Phillipson (Z&P) have provided a valuable discussion of the identification and development of giftedness under a systemic umbrella, including issues of differing theoretical approaches and efficacy. This commentary considers their discussion within a novel systemic framework that links also individuals and environment,but in terms of interacting information processing systems. Gifted education,in this framework, involves developing interacting systems that give rise to culturally-valuable performances (actions). In this framework, information is all of the matter and energy that makes up the universe. All discrete entities are information processing systems, with processing referring to changes in information. Within this framework, the mechanism that Z&P attribute to Descartes can be utilized in examining component systems and their interactions, with no separation of structure and system (p. 11), or separation of biological and social interactions. This framework may allow comparison of differing approaches to cognition and, as a result to giftedness, through consideration of differing theories, at least where these can be paraphrased in terms of matter and energy interactions, or related emergent properties, and it may be useful for Z&P to consider how their systemic view can be applied to cognition more generally and then to specific results of cognition,such as seen in giftedness. The broad framework here, however, suggests an emphasis on the identification and improvement of culturally-valuable performance,rather than trying to identify giftedness per se. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

  • There appears to be differing approaches, in modern education, to the identification and development of gifted students, but researchers are beginning to find some cohesiveness through approaches that examine giftedness from within broad views of human cognition and behavior. This paper takes such an approach by considering learning and memory as concerned with the processing of environmental information and its accumulation across society, where such cultural accumulation results from environmental interaction. This paper outlines a framework, developed from studies of learning and memory and environmental interaction, which is based in a novel description of information and information processing systems. This framework may be useful in providing a new way of thinking about human cognition and behavior in an evolutionary context as well as in relation to the overall accumulation of culture across human society. This framework may be useful, therefore, in examining giftedness by providing useful insights into the identification and development of gifted students, in particular, those with the high levels of expertise considered valuable as human cultural accumulation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)

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