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Handbook of Giftedness and Talent Development in the Asia-Pacific pp 1–20Cite as

A Counselling Framework for Meeting the Needs of Gifted Students in Malaysia

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Abstract

Gifted education has yet to be considered as one of the mainstream paradigms in the Malaysian national education system. Even though local initiatives for gifted learners were in existence in Malaysia as early as the 1960s, such efforts were short-lived due to a lack of a clearly defined curriculum, as well as limited training, leadership and resources. Recently, however, interest in promoting programs to serve the learning needs of students with high academic potential has been reignited. In particular, the collaborative effort that begun in 2009 between Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at the Johns Hopkins University, USA, resulted in the development of a national program to serve gifted learners known as PERMATApintar™. At present, this program includes four main components: (1) talent search, (2) school holiday program, (3) residential college and (4) pre-matriculation. In addition, the administration of the PERMATApintar™ program has decided to provide counselling services as one of the strategies to support the holistic talent development of its students. In this chapter a description and discussion of the framework, and guiding principles of counselling initiatives for gifted learners in the Malaysian context, particularly in the PERMATApintar™, will be provided. Concomitantly, an elaboration of the research findings on the students’ psychosocial and emotional concerns, their perceptions of the counselling services they have received and the common issues faced by gifted students in current local educational settings will be presented in this chapter.

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    Abu Yazid Abu Bakar

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Bakar, A.Y.A., Brody, L.E. (2019). A Counselling Framework for Meeting the Needs of Gifted Students in Malaysia. In: Smith, S. (eds) Handbook of Giftedness and Talent Development in the Asia-Pacific. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3021-6_47-1

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