Recent Trends in the Education of Gifted Children in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Australia. Unit for Child Studies Selected Papers Number 18.

Characteristics of gifted children and identification procedures as well as educational provisions for gifted children in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia are discussed in this seminar paper. Ways to modify curricula and ways programs have been enriched for gifted students are pointed out. In the final section of the paper very recent developments in gifted education in the forementioned countries are summarized. (Author/RH)