2000/12/01 by Ann G. Klein · 1 voice · 2 citations
Psychology · #Creativity in Education and Neuroscience #Education, Achievement, and Giftedness #Mentoring and Academic Development
paper · doi:10.1080/02783190009554075
openalex publication_date 2000/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1886–1939) was a psychologist, educator, and a feminist. An intellectual trailblazer in multiple academic disciplines, it was teaching and counseling gifted children that became her passion. The issues she identified and addressed are the very issues we continue to debate and ponder: How do we identify the gifted? Should they be accelerated and/or enriched? Should they be taught in the regular classroom? In the 1920s and 1930s Hollingworth devised strategies to meet the cognitive and affective needs of this special population that are employed to this day.