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Publication Date: 2022-Sep
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Excellence, Equity, and Talent Development: Time to Retire the G-Word
Gifted Education International, v38 n3 p373-378 Sep 2022
This essay offers six reasons why the field of gifted education should retire the terms giftedness and gifted. Additionally, in the historical context of longstanding, severe, and pervasive racial and income inequities in the field of gifted education, the term Master's Discourse is introduced and defined in this call to change terminology. Among the reasons to move on from the gifted terminology are its racist history; its association with underrepresentation; waning support for gifted programming; years of debate in the field over the use of these terms; issues with giftedness being narrowly defined by ability tests; and the need for language to evolve.
Descriptors: Gifted Education, Gifted, Equal Education, Low Income, Racism, Language Usage, Definitions, Disproportionate Representation, Educational Change, Minority Groups, Measures (Individuals), Ability
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