Purpose: During the last decade, new continuing learning pathways have been designed and implemented in the Dutch Vocational Education and Training (VET) column aiming to foster students' transitions between successive educational levels. Prototypical examples of such continuing learning pathways are the Green Lyceum (GL) and the Technical Talent…

Using the Triple Helix model, this study explores the government-university relationship in the context of China's AI talent development, and their outcomes in terms of AI program deployment, enrollment and faculty. Their interaction may best be summarized as a model of government pull and university response, but with more support and autonomy…

Purpose: This study investigates the level and correlation between talent management and teacher personal qualities among MICSS (Malaysian Independent Chinese Secondary School) teachers by integrating the talent management model proposed by Davies and Davies (2011) and the Big Five Structure established by Lewis R. Goldberg (1992).…

The notion of the human person, together with the importance that the Catholic community has, since its inception, given to the educational enterprise, has led various authors, including Augustine, Abelard, and Aquinas, among others, to reflect on the meaning of intellect and talents and their effects on education. Yet such reflections were never…

Policies designed to cultivate talent within universities are central to China's strategy for reforming and improving the quality of its higher education. This study develops a goal-instrument analysis framework for a content analysis of 113 such policies. Within the context of China's Double First-Class construction, the analysis examines the…

Relative age effects (RAEs) are independent of specific cutoff dates that can vary from country to country. However, the consequences of changing the selection cutoff dates within a national sport organization are unknown. Further, the transition from international youth to senior representation is yet to be explored in rugby union. Thus, the aims…

The new edition of "Exploring Critical Issues in Gifted Education" presents problem-based learning scenarios that explore authentic situations found in K-12 classrooms. The real-world, current issue scenarios and cases described in this text are designed to be read and discussed in a short amount of time, allowing the reader to gain…

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the "International Journal of Talent Development and Creativity," I return to the vision of the publication, by understanding what it means to develop talent and creativity in the 21st century. This paper celebrates the development of talent in the context of an arts education for neurodiverse…

This article reflects on the "Hiddenness Index" we developed, implemented, and evaluated for Concertgebouworkest Young (Young), the youth orchestra of the Dutch Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Concertgebouworkest) for musicians with "hidden talents." "Hiddenness" alludes to various barriers that young musicians…

Matthew effect ("the rich get richer") has been a research topic for decades. It refers to a cumulative advantage, social or individual, in talent development as well as performance or productivity, typically unfolding longitudinally. The present study builds on a previous qualitative study as an attempt to fully understand developmental…

Most conceptions of giftedness overly focus on the gifted "individual" and leave out the social and global context in which the individual grows. However, human lives are intricately interconnected. An individual's actions can have large effects on other individuals, societies, and nature. In this article, I argue a paradigm shift is…

This article proposes a duplex model for understanding giftedness. The first part of the duplex is the set of gifted skills and attitudes that one possesses as a result of heredity, the environment, and their interaction. It is the input that one has acquired from one's life experiences. The second part of the duplex is the utilization or…

The role of creativity in teaching gifted children is essential for gifted students to develop their high abilities and creative potential. Teaching and fostering creativity and creative thinking within other academic domains can provide opportunities for excellence and achievement within students' talent development and interests. This manuscript…

Cultivating diversified and high-quality talents is the mode of cultivating talents in higher quality education. Aiming at the effect of the innovation of dance education system, the authors study the change of its influence on college students' artistic accomplishment under the new media form. Firstly, it analyzes the research status of the…

A Chinese financial company, through the introduction of action learning methodology, identified core problems from strategy, and finally solved the core strategic problems by forming action learning teams of middle and senior managers, and in the process improved the mindset and capabilities of middle and senior managers. This account of Practice…