Gifted-ish

Women and Nonbinary Writers on Intelligence, Identity and Education

Buch | Softcover

277 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 role of 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, Columbia Journalism Review, and many more.

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
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	272 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