Biography of gifted ckids

Jennifer Crane has held a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship to examine ‘the gifted child’ since , and has published about this research in the Historical Journal and, forthcoming, in Contemporary European History. She is finalising a book manuscript which looks at how concerns about giftedness were made and remade in ‘Britain and the world’ since , and which centres the voices of children themselves in responding to and changing this flexible category.

As Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite has persuasively argued, ‘ordinariness’ was ‘claimed by both the middle and the working classes in the late twentieth century.

Being ordinary meant not being privileged or part of an elite.’  This rhetoric, Sutcliffe-Braithwaite shows, ‘could mask the very real differences in privilege and opportunity which marked late twentieth-century society’.

Gifted Kids Need Biographies – Wonderschooling

Pat Thane, also, has charted how many forms of inequality continued across the mid-to-late twentieth century. In addition to rises in income inequali Scientists followed ‘gifted’ kids for 54 years and realised ... QYGY