Gifted-ish

Women and Nonbinary Writers on Intelligence, Identity and Education

Buch | Softcover

212 Seiten

2024
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-9242-5 (ISBN)

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Offers personal accounts from diverse voices, each one considered a ‘gifted kid’ in their youth, and considers questions of identity, inequality, poverty, racism, and more. Essays address the dangers of praising achievements over efforts, imposter syndrome, intelligence as identity, and why even the smartest among us often feel like failures.

Much is made of the test scores, earning power, and innovative contributions of highly intelligent kids, but we rarely ask what it's actually like to be "gifted." In a culture obsessed with exceptionalism, sorting by intelligence has become an educational norm, leading thousands of American students to be ushered through (or noticeably left out of) advanced academic programs. Stereotypes and generalizations about these students--from the socially inept genius to the high-strung overachiever-have filled the gap in data about who they are apart from what they achieve. At a time of educational upheaval and rapidly declining youth mental health, former gifted kids--particularly women and nonbinary people also wrestling with questions of identity, inequality, and parenthood--are reckoning with the "gifted" label.

This work offers personal accounts from diverse voices, each one considered a "gifted kid" in their youth, and considers questions of identity, inequality, poverty, racism, and more. Essays address the dangers of praising achievements over efforts, imposter syndrome, intelligence as identity, and why even the smartest among us often feel like failures, among many other topics.

Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips is a writer and editor living in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, LitHub, Narratively, and Columbia Journalism Review.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: Desirable Difficulties

Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips

Part I: Go Big or Go Home

On My Own Terms

Aleenah Ansari

Cycle of Transgressions

Sheryl Carlson

Scapegoat

Brooke J. Knisley

The Art of Stunting Trees

Bunny McFadden

Part II: Who Do You Think You Are?

The Very Worst Girl in the Family

Amy Challenger

Honorary

Amanda Lehr

On the Shoulders of Giants

Sophie Strosberg

Fight Song

Amy Lee Lillard

Part III: Labels and Levels

Skipping Third Grade and Part of My Childhood

Candy Schulman

Twice Exceptional

Eve Z. Crevoshay

Boxes

Sondi Warner

Too Young to Qualify

Michele Weldon

Double-Demoted

Mandy Shunnarah

Part IV: Breaking the Cycle

Gatekept

Laura Wheatman Hill

The Language of Learning

Jennifer Dines

A Desk of My

Melissa A. Watkins

I Wanted My Child to Be a Child

Aimee Seiff Christian

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2024
Zusatzinfo	notes, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4766-9242-4 / 1476692424
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-9242-5 / 9781476692425
Zustand	Neuware