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"Giftedness in sport provided a starting point for this project. There is a growing body of knowledge about educating gifted children, and it has been recognised that prodigies are a special needs group (Radford, 1990). In term of organisation, there is no agreed policy about integration or separation. Gifted children who are separated into small groups for a major part of their school years may find difficulty in relating socially to more normal peers.....
Talent identification is still a very imprecise skill, particularly when dealing with young children (Rowley, 1995). European approaches to giftedness in sport vary considerably. There have been disturbing examples of what amounts to child abuse (Ryan, 1996) in gymnastics and ice skating.....
The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, announced in January 2000 that he intends that a quarter of Britain's comprehensive schools will cater for [ specialisms in ] arts, music, sport or sciences by the year 2003 (Independent, 7 January 2000, p7).....
It may therefore be instructive to discover how another country with exactly the same population as Scotland (5.1 million) is dealing with specialist provision.
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