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The aim of this chapter is to discuss what kind of learning would be interactive as well as meaningful in teaching gifted science students. Students are identified as being gifted based on their earlier school achievements and projects (see Table 1). The research reported here is a multiple-case study of five international students who attended the Millennium Youth Camp (MY Camp) in Finland in the summer of 2012.
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Tirri, K., Kuusisto, E., Aksela, M. (2013). What Kind of Learning is Interactive and Meaningful to Gifted Science Students?. In: Tirri, K., Kuusisto, E. (eds) Interaction in Educational Domains. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-395-9_11
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