Our 13th and 14th Audiences give an opportunity to hear lead national figures in Able, Gifted and Talented Education

Gifts, talents and living your values as a passionate educator

An Audience with Jack Whitehead and Marie Huxtable

Jack and Marie’s work has inspired many teachers and pupils who are working together to find life-long ways to express, contribute and develop their gifts and talents.  Participants will gain an insight into a way of living their values more fully in
their educational relationships with their pupils.

Jack Whitehead originated the idea of living educational theories as the explanations that individuals produce to explain their educational influences in their own learning, in the learning of others and in the social formations in which we live and work.

Marie Huxtable originated the idea of an inclusional approach to gifts and talents in education, in which individuals express and develop their talents in the production of gifts as they generate their own living educational theories of their educational influences with pupils and students. The explanations which individuals generate in accounting for  their lives in terms of their talents and gifts will be shown to include the expression of a life-affirming energy with the values they use to give meaning and purpose to their lives.