Twice-Exceptional Children Are Gifts (eBook)

Developing the Talents of 2e Children

John Inman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
234 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
978-1-7353333-0-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is the story of my lifelong 2e Journey Informed by Traditional Indigenous LearningTo address the daunting challenges we face as a global community, we need people who can see the world beyond an "e;either-or"e; dualistic perspective. This book presumes such a dualistic perspective has been especially damaging to the twice-exceptional (2e) or gifted and learning disabled (Gifted and LD or GLD) children of the world, children who are growing up like I did, gifted and learning disabled. These children have so much potential to see the world as connected and to teach us to honor diversity and complementarity. Yet the Western educational paradigm typically thinks of these children as broken and in need of fixing. 2e children often find themselves separated, provided remedial programs, medicated, and made to feel broken or just ignored as they can appear average. If 2e children are noticed at all, educators usually focus on 2e children's disabilities rather than on their gifts. If the pattern of medication and behavioral modification intervention causes these children to underperform or drop out of the educational system altogether, we have lost valuable members of society who can help us solve complex challenges.I propose adding an Indigenous framework to cluster-grouped classrooms to help move toward a more holistic approach for developing 2e children and honoring their gifts, regardless of the gifts children bring to classrooms. With the introduction of traditional Indigenous approaches to education, mindsets can evolve allowing for a rethinking of our educational structures. This borderland experience takes place at the intersection of Indigenous and Western worldviews. Just as cultures collide at their borders, so do worldviews. New un-envisioned cultures and possibilities emerge at these borderlands. By Indigenizing our schools, classrooms, and curriculum, we can educate our children with a more dialogic, holistic, culturally and historically sensitive, and connected approach to learning. Creating such an Indigenous context for schools can prevent the lifelong damage which often comes from a mechanistic approach to education for 2e and Learning Disabled children. This autoethnography "e;imagines"e; how my own life's journey might have been different had Indigenous perspectives been operational in the educational system within which I grew up.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments xv

Authors Note on Approach to Research      xvii

PART ONE

The World of Twice-Exceptionality and a Path Toward Healing

Chapter 1: My Journey      3

Chapter 2: Definitions of Gifted, Learning-Disabled, and Twice-Exceptional Learners      7

Twice-Exceptional      7

Learning Deficits      10

Giftedness      12

Chapter 3: Indigenizing Mainstream Education      15

Chapter 4: Why This Research and a Plea for Change      21

Who Are These Children?      21

Creating a Sense of Urgency to Address This Gap      24

Hope for the Future      28

PART TWO

My Journey, An Autoethnography

Chapter 5: A Brief Autobiographical Sketch      33

Chapter 6: Early Reading Problems      37

My K-5 Experience      37

Chapter 7: Middle School Years: Another 5th Grade and Private School      49

Chapter 8: High School      61

Chapter 9: My Undergraduate College Years      69

Chapter 10: The Journey to My First Master's Degree      75

The Impact of Living as a 2e Person      75

Why I Chose to Earn a Master's in Adult Education      75

Consulting Coming to an End      81

Chapter 11: Overcoming Barriers to Dialogue      85

Internal Barriers to Dialogue      87

External Barriers to Dialogue     91

Chapter 12: A Call to Action      97

PART THREE

A Deep Dive into Theory and Practice: What Does the Literature Say

Chapter 13: Foundation in Literature      103

Chapter 14: Twice-Exceptional Learning                 105

Significant Literature      108

Chapter 15: Indigenous Foundations for Education      123

Look to The Mountain      125

Teaching Truly      128

Summary of Literature      131

PART FOUR

Indigenous Learning and the Theories Supporting It

Chapter 16: Indigenous World View of Education      135

A Holistic View of the Learner and Their Environment      136

Indigenous Foundation for Learning      140

PART FIVE

Insights, Conclusions, and Recommendations

Chapter 17: Insights and Conclusions      165

Chapter 18: Future Research Directions and Applications      173

Appendix A: Proposed Classroom for 2e Children       177

Appendix B: Mind Map of Foundational Resources         179

Bibliography      181

Index      193

About the Author      199

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Förder- / Sonderschule
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
• Schlagworte: 2e • dialogic learning • gifted • Indigenous-Learning • learning-disabled • Multiple Pathways • seed • Systems Learning • twice-exceptional • universal design for learning
• ISBN-10: 1-7353333-0-1 / 1735333301
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7353333-0-4 / 9781735333304