Goodness Personified: The Emergence of Gifted Children

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Transaction Publishers - 181 ページ
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

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From Facial Beauty to Pubic Hair Assembling Gifted Children
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From Overt to Covert Racism New Gifted Child Rhetorics
19
From Objects of Awe to Objects of Commiseration Gifted Children as Victims
35
From Gifted Children to Successful Adults The Promise Fulfilled
57
From Leadership to Critical Thinking Pegasus in the Classroom
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From the Golden Chromosome to Gifted Behaviors Preserving Giftedness
93
From Giftedness to Nongiftedness Assembling Ordinary Children
105
How Discipline Makes Gifted Children
121
From Christianity to Democracy Giftedness as Virtue
135
Notes
143
References
155
Name Index
173
Subject Index
177
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54 ページ - One of the evils most liable to attend on any sort of early proficiency, and which often fatally blights its promise, my father most anxiously guarded against. This was selfconceit. He kept me, with extreme vigilance, out of the way of hearing myself praised, or of being led to make selfflattering comparisons between myself and others.
5 ページ - Their dullness seems to be racial, or at least inherent in the family stocks from which they come. The fact that one meets this type with such extraordinary frequency among Indians, Mexicans, and negroes suggests quite forcibly that the whole question of racial differences in mental traits will have to be taken up anew and by experimental methods.
39 ページ - ... impatient, took the book from her hands, and read aloud the opening sentence. At first, flattered by the silence which surrounded her, she continued this fascinating game; but suddenly panic seized her. One look at the stupefied faces of her parents, another at Bronya's sulky stare, a few unintelligible stammers, an irrepressible sob— and instead of the infant prodigy, there was only the baby of four, crying through her tears: "Beg— pardon! Pardon! I didn't do it on purpose. It's not my fault—...
121 ページ - We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms: it "excludes," it "represses," it "censors," it "abstracts," it "masks," it "conceals." In fact, power produces; it produces reality; it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth.
67 ページ - My dear Adele, I am 4 years old and I can read any English book. I can say all the Latin Substantives and Adjectives and active verbs besides 52 lines of Latin poetry. I can cast up any sum in addition and can multiply by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, [9], 10.
135 ページ - ... in the most unpromising places, in what we tend to feel is without history — in sentiments, love, conscience, instincts; it must be sensitive to their recurrence, not in order to trace the gradual curve of their evolution, but to isolate the different scenes where they engaged in different roles.

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