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 Volume 10, Issue 11 (November 2023), Pages: 124-135

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 Original Research Paper

Nurturing brilliance: A cross-cultural exploration of supporting gifted children

 Author(s): 

 Abdulelah Abdullah Al-Duraywish *

 Affiliation(s):

 Applied College, King Faisal University, Al‐Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4119-488X

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2023.11.016

 Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the available laws and regulations regarding the education of gifted students by comparing these laws and regulations in Australia, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The study used the descriptive analytical comparative approach and analyzed available information in published studies, peer-reviewed articles, and online official documents of the countries under study. The findings of the study reported that Australia is very advanced in the field of enacting policies and legislation, as it has developed integrated strategies that include most of the elements of policies and legislation, although there are some shortcomings compared to the international standards; in South Korea, there are policies and legislation, but they are not integrated and have many shortcomings in definitions, explanation and implementation, and they do not cooperate with the international standards. In Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the implementation of policies and legislation is neither in line with international standards nor with the general directions of educational policies, and they are almost unavailable. However, the UAE has taken some steps to enact policies and laws.

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords

 Policies and legislation, Gifted education, Comparative analysis, Gifted standards

 Article history

 Received 8 June 2023, Received in revised form 27 September 2023, Accepted 1 November 2023

 Acknowledgment 

This work was supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research, Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia [Grant No.3927].

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Al-Duraywish AA (2023). Nurturing brilliance: A cross-cultural exploration of supporting gifted children. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 10(11): 124-135

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