Rethinking Gifted Education by James H. Borland
By James H. Borland
This clean and provocative quantity includes essays via best thinkers on talented schooling and by way of writers open air the sphere who've tested it significantly. every one writer examines, reconsiders, and demanding situations the assumptions and ideology underlying the idea and perform of talented schooling - offering a roadmap to lead either present concerns of and destiny making plans for presented education schemes.
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Carroll, Vernon, Cattell), the view here is that determining the ways in which broader forms of intellectual functioning interact with specific forms is the key to better understanding of human potential in human cultures (H. Gardner, Kornhaber & Wake, 1996). In most theories of intelligence, g has been placed at the top of a hier- 20 Reconceptualizations of Giftedness archy, with dominion over and superiority to more specific talents (including, perhaps surprisingly, some versions of Sternberg’s [1984] triarchic theory).
Other than in universal and perhaps some pancultural domains, all other domains require increasingly specific sets of abilities for successful mastery, along with increasingly specific sets of sustained interventions, institutions, technologies, pedagogies, and practices applied in appropriate ways for sufficient periods of time. These domains are engaged by fewer and fewer individuals within a society as one moves toward the unique end of the continuum, but they are nonetheless developmental in the sense that a sequence (or sequences) of levels or stages must be achieved in each domain (Feldman, 1994a, 1995).
Are the dimensions of development emphasized appropriately in the proposed framework? For example, are qualities of personality, of historical context, of spirituality, of gender, of ethnicity, given appropriate attention in appropriate ways? Do the “traditional” gifted children get lost in the shuffle? Is there still a place for the gifted education movement served so well by children during its first century? Is their place still a valued one? Will the proposed framework help us sort out the confusing terminology in the field?