When Giftedness Puts the Child at Risk: Being-at-Risk as a Way of Dwelling in Possibilities for Giftedness

• Main Author: Sparks, Elizabeth E
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 01.06.1993
• Subjects: At Risk Persons; Educational Philosophy; Educational Psychology; Elementary Secondary Education; Gifted; Hermeneutics; Student Attitudes; Student Development; Teacher Effectiveness; Underachievement

This paper notes that gifted education has been dominated by psychology and proposes, in contrast, to de-psychologize the concept of "giftedness-at-risk" with an alternative model which sees ontological giftedness, becoming the best one can be, as not the property of an elite few but a per...