On November 6, 2021, Dr. János Győri, professor of Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Institute for Intercultural Psychology and Pedagogy, gave a highly successful plenary lecture at The 19th Shanghai International Curriculum Forum - Comparing curriculum and instruction inside and outside schools: policies and practices.
In a blended program, dr. Győri demonstrated to an online audience of around 50,000 people how talent identification and talent development are intertwined in the formal education system and the non-formal supplementary private education industry (shadow education), using the examples of India, China and South Korea. The peculiarity and contradiction of the situation is that in these countries it is the non-formal supplementary private education industry that first identifies and develops outstanding talent in order to meet the highest talent selection criteria of the formal education system, and then to be integrated and developed in school-based talent programs that provide formal talent training opportunities for these students. Dr. Győri pointed out the contradictions, advantages and disadvantages, fair and unfair aspects of this talent management identification and development situation, which has not been analyzed by other researchers before.