Transformational giftedness

• Verfasst von: Sternberg, Robert J. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Transformational giftedness
• Titelzusatz: rethinking our paradigm for gifted education
• Verf.angabe: Robert J. Sternberg
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: 29 Oct 2020
• Umfang: 11 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 06.06.2025
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Roeper review
• Ort Quelle: Bloomfield Hills, Mich. : Roeper City and Country School, 1990
• Jahr Quelle: 2020
• Band/Heft Quelle: 42(2020), 4, Seite 230-240
• ISSN Quelle: 1940-865X
• DOI: doi:10.1080/02783193.2020.1815266
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: adaptive intelligence
• Sach-SW: creativity
• Sach-SW: intelligence
• Sach-SW: transactional giftedness
• Sach-SW: transformational giftedness
• Sach-SW: wisdom
• K10plus-PPN: 1927765633

Abstract

In this article, I discuss two kinds of giftedness, transactional and transformational. Transformational giftedness is giftedness that is transformative. Transformationally gifted individuals seek positively to change the world at some level—in their own way, to make the world a better place. Transactional giftedness is giftedness that is based on exchange. It is tit-for-tat in nature. The individual is identified as gifted and then expects and is expected to do something in return. That something, for children, is typically high-level performance in academic coursework. Society also may expect that the individual later in life will continue to show high educational achievement. The two kinds of giftedness are not inborn. Rather, they are shaped through life in school and in the home interacting with the personal attitudes toward life of the gifted individual.