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Gifted education is in a period of transition unlike any it has experienced in this generation. Thinkers within the field and without are questioning the practice of gifted education, the theoretical foundations on which this practice rests, and even the value and legitimacy of the concept of giftedness. This fresh and provocative volume contains essays by leading thinkers on gifted education and by writers outside the field who have examined it critically. Each author examines, reconsiders, and challenges the assumptions and beliefs underlying the theory and practice of gifted education, providing a "roadmap" to guide both current considerations of and future planning for gifted education programs.
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Education and Psychology of the Gifted Series JAMES H. BORLAND, EDITOR Rethinking Gifted Education JAMES H. BORLAND, Editor Multicultural Gifted Education DONNA Y. FORD and J. JOHN HARRIS III Reversing Underachievement Among Gifted Black Students: Promising Practices and Programs DONNA Y. FORD Out of Our Minds: Anti-Intellectualism and Talent Development in American Schooling CRAIG B. HOWLEY, AIMEE HOWLEY, and EDWINA D. PENDARVIS The Hunter College Campus Schools for the Gifted: The Challenge of Equity and Excellence ELIZABETH STONE Recommended Practices in Gifted Education: A Critical Analysis BRUCE M. SHORE, DEWEY G. CORNELL, ANN W. ROBINSON, and VIRGIL S. WARD Conducting Research and Evaluation in Gifted Education: A Handbook of Methods and Applications NINA K. BUCHANAN and JOHN F. FELDHUSEN, Editors The Academic Acceleration of Gifted Children W. THOMAS SOUTHERN and ERIC D. JONES, Editors Reaching the Gifted Underachiever: Program Strategy and Design PATRICIA L. SUPPLEE Planning and Implementing Programs for the Gifted JAMES H. BORLAND
Rethinking Gifted Education EDITED BY
JAMES H. BORLAND
Teachers College Columbia University New York and London
Published by Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027 Copyright 2003 by Teachers College, Columbia University All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rethinking gifted education / edited by James H. Borland. p. cm. — (Education and psychology of the gifted series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8077-4304-6 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Gifted children—Education. I. Borland, James H. II. Series. LC3993.R48 2003 371.95—dc21 2002042987 ISBN 0-8077-4304-6 (cloth) Printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Section I. Reconceptualizations of Giftedness 1. A Developmental, Evolutionary Perspective on Giftedness
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David Henry Feldman 2. Beyond General Giftedness: New Ways to Identify and Educate Gifted, Talented, and Precocious Youth John F. Feldhusen
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3. Beyond School: In Search of Meaning
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Mary Anne Heng 4. An Essay on Rethinking Theory as a Tool for Disciplined Inquiry
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Laurence J. Coleman 5. Rethinking Gifted Education: A Phenomenological Critique of the Politics and Assumptions of the Empirical-Analytic Mode of Inquiry
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Tracy L. Cross 6. Talent Development for Rural Communities Aimee Howley, Craig B. Howley, and Edwina D. Pendarvis 7. The Death of Giftedness: Gifted Education Without Gifted Children James H. Borland vii
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Section II. Gifted Education and Equity 8. Equity, Excellence, and Scho