The lecture will be given by Professor Janos Gyori of the ELTE Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest and will feature the topic of private or shadow education in the field of giftedness. Please find the lecture details and Zoom link below.
Zoom meeting link: https://ppk-elte-hu.zoom.us/j/95774255583?pwd=KbeCcqdPuu8xLqNZ5FLxdy5UmXPrGs.1
Meeting ID: 957 7425 5583
Passcode: 680200
Why is it worth knowing more about shadow education, when it comes to developing gifted students?
Although researchers in the field of gifted education and gifted development often deal with the role of extracurricular education in gifted students’ development, they rarely pay special attention to the role of supplementary private education – or shadow education – in this context. In his ECHA talk prof. János Gordon Győri introduces some basic characteristics shadow education itself, highlighting why it is a mistake in research if we do not separate shadow education activities from other types of extracurricular education. He then uses the examples of four Asian countries – India, South Korea, Japan and China – to show the parallel and overlapping processes of segregated education of gifted students in formal education and shadow education contexts. At the end of his presentation, Dr. Gordon Győri highlights the lessons of this special phenomenon complex – which has not been discussed in the literature so far – for research and in the practice of the educational development of gifted students.
Bio
Dr. János Gordon Győri is a full professor of education at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Among other educational topics he dealt with gifted education and gifted development issues both in its theoretical and practical aspects in the past 25 years. In his doctoral thesis in 2002 he introduced thinking skills development programs in a global perspective, showing and analysing the most important programs in this field from Singapore to the USA in many countries. In the first decade of the 21st century in three volumes – both in English and Hungarian – he and his collaborators introduced and analysed more than 30 gifted development programs in more than 2 dozens countries around the world. In his chapters and articles he deals with special aspects of gifted education and development, like the theoretical and practical aspects of the concept of domain in gifted education and development, and also with the overlapping aspects of gifted education and shadow education. During the Covid era, in 2020, on the 19th Shanghai International Curriculum Forum he gave an online speech for 50000 audience on this topic. Today he continues to talk again about this topic with new aspects, a topic that is almost completely uncovered in either the gifted education or shadow education literature.
We look forward to seeing many of you there!