Goodness Personified The Emergence of Gifted Children

Name: Goodness Personified The Emergence of Gifted Children
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ISBN: 9780202305264

ISBN-10: 0202305260

ISBN-13: 9780202305264

Edition: 1994

Authors: Leslie Margolin

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"In Goodness Personified, Leslie Margolin challenges the most common assumptions underlying gifted education. His analysis of the gifted child movement shows how scholars formed the concept of giftedness in their writings, how they provided detailed documentation of the characteristics such children were thought to embody, and how they managed to spread that vision to a community of believers. In doing so, he demonstrates that social "assets" as well as social "problems" can be viewed as social constructions, the products of competing claims." "The author explains how gifted education is the obverse side of the "pedagogy of the oppressed," how it supports racism and classism, and singles…

Book details

List price: $115.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/31/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 181
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



From Facial Beauty to Pubic Hair: Assembling Gifted Children



From Overt to Covert Racism: New Gifted Child Rhetorics



From Objects of Awe to Objects of Commiseration: Gifted Children as Victims



From Gifted Children to Successful Adults: The Promise Fulfilled



From Leadership to Critical Thinking: Pegasus in the Classroom



From the Golden Chromosome to Gifted Behaviors: Preserving Giftedness



From Giftedness to Nongiftedness: Assembling Ordinary Children



From Power to Knowledge: How Discipline Makes Gifted Children



From Christianity to Democracy: Giftedness as Virtue


Notes


References


Name Index


Subject Index