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The Actiotope Model Of Giftedness: A Short Introduction To Some Central Theoretical Assumptions, Albert Ziegler, Wilma Vialle, Bastian Wimmer

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Scenario 1: Favela Rocinha in the south of Rio de Janeiro. Little Carlos is sitting on three piled-up tyres. The four chairs around the only table in the wooden hut are occupied by his oldest brother and his friend playing cards together. Scenario 2: 155th street, Holocombe Rucker Playground, in the middle of a neighborhood in the poorest part of Harlem. Mike, aged eight, is dreaming of doing one 'slam dunk' after another some day during the 'Rucker', the world's most famous street basketball tournament. Scenario 3: The room of Lian, a third-grade pupil. She's going to do a mathematics …