NAGC 58th Annual Convention & Exhibition
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Gifted Education Is Fractured, Porous, and Contested: What Should We Do About It?
Track
:
Conceptual Foundations
Date:
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Time:
9:15 AM to 10:15 AM
EST
Room:
Grand Salon Section: 6
NAGCFACULTY
(S):
Don Ambrose, Dr., Rider University
Laurence Coleman, Herb Professor of Gifted Studies, University of Toledo
Tracy Cross, Dr., The College of William and Mary
James Gallagher, Dr., University of North Carorina
Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Smith Professor Emerita, College of William and Mary, College of William and Mary
PRESENTER
(S):
Don Ambrose, Dr., Rider University
Laurence Coleman, Herb Professor of Gifted Studies, University of Toledo
Tracy Cross, Dr., The College of William and Mary
James Gallagher, Dr., University of North Carorina
Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Smith Professor Emerita, College of William and Mary, College of William and Mary
Description
Recently, a group of scholars determined that the field of gifted education is fragmented, porous, and contested in contrast with unified, insular, and firmly policed fields. Employing a framework borrowed from four disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, the collaborators discovered that gifted education suffers from and benefits from fragmentation, interdisciplinary porosity, and conflict at the levels of practice, research, and theory. In this session, they take the next step by attempting to answer Harry Passow's “so what?” question. If the field truly does fit this pattern, how can practitioners and scholars capitalize on it and avoid its pitfalls?
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