Conference Focus
Giftedness and high potential in a multicultural society is a topic most relevant and of high interest not only in European countries, but all over the world. The ECHA Conference 2016 both highlights intellectual abilities and also addresses the diversity of intelligences, talents and high abilities that may contribute to a thriving society. Talents and high abilities are equally distributed among all cultural, ethnic, religious and socio-economic groups. Therefore, potentials and abilities of children, youngsters and young adults with a migration background need to be specially advanced.
Only the contribution, cooperation and appreciation of the different cultural backgrounds can guarantee a prosperous social development. During the conference this attitude should find expression in various opportunities for personal meetings and in the exchange of content-related views of the participants.
The event intends to initiate an interdisciplinary encounter between science, research and practice.
Focus areas
- Gifted education as a contribution to personal, social and cultural development
- Value-based gifted education
- Minority issues and equal opportunities in gifted education
- Giftedness and socio-cultural context
- Socio-emotional needs of gifted children and youngsters
- Questions of culturally conditioned differences in learning processes, in the concepts of giftedness and in performance
- Gifted education and ethnic diversity
- Gifted education and mother tongue
- Person-oriented approach to gifted education
- Mentoring and coaching in gifted education
- Key competences – Social skills – Personal responsibility
- Methods and didactics of teaching gifted students: Theory, research, and practices
- Giftedness beyond economic profit-orientation
- Trends in research and theory of giftedness
- Intercontinental exchange: Concepts of giftedness and the methodology of teaching the gifted
