ABSTRACT
This chapter explains about the importance of focusing special programs on creative and productive giftedness. The theory is based on the role that knowledge plays in developing an investigative mindset and creative productivity, and how the integrated use of three levels of knowledge contribute to a major goal of gifted education: to increase the world’s reservoir of creative and productive individuals. The theory has special relevance to gifted education because knowledge creation, utilization, and diffusion are what creative and productive people do. The type of learning advocated by this theory is the way that the pursuit of knowledge naturally occurs in “real-world” places. Theories of knowledge are the focus of the study of epistemology, that branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, construction, and diffusion of human knowledge. Classroom practices that promote Analyzed Knowledge are much more advanced than merely receiving, storing, and retrieving information.
