Gifts, talents and education - Barry Hymer

Examples reveal how teachers can transform the way education isunderstood in schools, by relating stories of how they learnedabout their own gifts and talents. The book explains recent keydevelopments in multimedia representations of social and emotionalaspects of learning. These permit the multi-sensory gifts andtalents of individual learners to be recognised and developedwithin a process that enhances the emotionally literate space ofenquiring classrooms.

Gifts, Talents and Education assumes a capabilityapproach to human development which rests on enabling individualsto realise their gifts and talents within a co-created sense of thecommon good. The book offers values, skills and understanding asconcepts that retain a direct connection with practice. The storiesare grounded in the lives of practitioner researchers who show thelived meanings of these ideas as they are realised in practice,asking questions such as 'how do I improve what I amdoing?' and 'how do I live my values more fully inpractice?'.