ABSTRACT
Summary: Gifted education can be seen as a frontier of innovation education, wherein the nurturing of creativity has been an educational priority. Parallel to the first two stages of research on creativity, with its emphasis on person and process, gifted education has focused on two aspects of innovation education: how to provide a good educational match for those who demonstrate unique creative potential, and how to nurture creativity through curricular and instructional designs. These explorations have proved highly meaningful for general innovation education. In recent years, creativity researchers have broadened their perspectives beyond person and process to encompass complex social-cognitive dynamics and synergistic power. Technological advances and availability of cyber resources also make it possible to design an education gearing toward developing personal creativity on all fronts of human endeavor. It is argued that gifted education can learn from these new movements in innovation education and broaden its education scope accordingly.
