“Many Views of the Gifted for the Advantage of all Children”: Fourth World Conference on Gifted and Talented Children

G/C/T ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-15
Author(s):  
Jim Delisle
Keyword(s):  
Gifted And Talented ◽  
World Conference ◽  
Fourth World

Gifted Secondary Pupils in England

1982 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 237-243
Author(s):  
Frieda Painter
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Gifted And Talented ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
World Conference ◽  
Fourth World ◽  
The World

The Fourth World Conference on Gifted and Talented Children was held in Montreal in 1981. The large gathering of over 1000 participants brought together the representatives of more than 40 countries. They included psychologists, teachers, politicians, administrators and parents. In this climate of increasing concern throughout the world regarding the educational needs of, and provision for, the most able children in schools, it is of interest to inquire into the situation of gifted pupils in particular countries. The research described below investigated first the extent to which teachers recognized pupils who possessed exceptional ability, and second the nature of some of the characteristics of gifted children. As many as possible of the gifted pupils in six secondary schools were identified: their test scores and the replies to questionnaires were used to obtain information about them. All the pupils on the rolls of the six establishments were screened. Altogether, they numbered well over 5000 pupils.

The Ministry—A Renewed Quest

1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-311
Author(s):  
William Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
World Conference ◽  
Fourth World ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theological Study ◽  
Doctrine Of The Church ◽  
Work Done ◽  
The Church

The Fourth World Conference on Faith and Order, meeting at Montreal in July 1963, recommended the renewal of the study of the Ministry, within a new programme of theological study to be initiated by the Faith and Order Commission. As was noted at Montreal, the Ministry had not been the subject of Faith and Order study for twenty-five years. There were good reasons for this. While the Ministry continued to be the thorniest of the practical problems facing union negotiators, it was widely agreed that theologically it had failed and would continue to fail to yield to a head-on treatment. Only in the light of the doctrine of the Church, considered in its christological and eschatological dimensions, would the Ministry appear in a form that could draw Christians together in church union. So, without altogether losing sight of the hope that something helpful could be said about the Ministry, Faith and Order turned, first to the doctrine of the Church, and then, in the period after Lund, to a study of Christ and the Church. Now the time has come to return to the Ministry, in the light of the work done at these deeper levels of Christian doctrine.

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