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Where are the gifted learners in inclusive education?

Dr Louise Tapper

Louise has been an advocate and an educator in the field of gifted and talented education for almost two decades. She has been a teacher, a teacher educator and a parent educator. She was a founder, and is the current Chair, of giftEDnz, the professional association for gifted education. Louise completed her doctorate in education looking at the experiences of school for gifted and talented adolescents in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2014. She is currently an independent education researcher and a contracted researcher for The Collaborative Trust for Research and Training in Youth Health and Development, working in community-based youth related projects in Canterbury.

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