IRATDE 2017 - 2017 Biannual Conference of the International Research Association for Talent Development and Excellence (IRATDE)

The 2017 IRATDE Biennial Conference in Dubai, from 6 to 9 October 2017, will present talks and posters on hot topics in the field of talent development as well as on a range of related research areas. Educational efforts aimed at helping individuals develop their talents and gifts are ubiquitous, both in and beyond formal schooling. They are, however, frequently ineffective or fail to live up to their original intentions. The goal of the 2017 IRATDE Biennial Conference in Dubai from 6 to 9 October 2017 is to explore how empirical research can help us to make all forms of gifted and talented education more effective. Research-based approaches help ensure that the planning, evaluation, implementation, and monitoring of provisions for gifted education and talent development are highly effective and accountable. Researchers working in the fields of talent development and gifted education will share insights from their talent development and giftedness research; experts working in allied fields of educational psychology and educational research will provide fresh ideas for additional approaches that can applied to talent development and giftedness research. Furthermore, the conference is intended as a creative dialog between educational practitioners and researchers on how they can learn from one another and collaborate towards their shared end of providing young individuals and people of all ages with excellent, highly effective means of discovering, developing, and profiting from their gifts, talents, and interests.
Conference Objectives
Using empirical research to make gifted and talented education more effective
Learning about cutting-edge research on talent development from experts in the fields of talent development and gifted education
Learning about new approaches from experts in educational psychology and education research that can be applied to research on talent development and gifted education
Enabling a creative dialog between education practitioners and researchers to improve gifted and talented education