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Playing Favorites: Gifted Education and the Disruption of Community

Playing Favorites: Gifted Education and the Disruption of Community

Paperback

Special Education

ISBN10: 0791419800
ISBN13: 9780791419809
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Apr 21 1994
Pages: 275
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

Playing Favorites examines the ways in which gifted education disrupts the classroom community, deskills regular classroom teachers, limits their ability and willingness to meet individual needs, and impairs the creation of a climate of inclusion and acceptance of difference. Sapon-Shevin shows here that current models of gifted education are elitist and meritocratic, treating some children, not just differently than others, but better; and that in large urban districts, gifted education programs are often racist as well. By creating and funding gifted programs, the author contends, schools engage in a form of educational triage, serving those children for whom inadequate programming and educational failure would not be acceptable while maintaining the status quo for the majority of the school population.

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