Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover
  • Book
  • © 2012

Families, Education and Giftedness

Case Studies in the Construction of High Achievement

Authors:

  1. Laura Mazzoli Smith

    1. University of Warwick, UK

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Jim Campbell

    1. University of Warwick, UK

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

Part of the book series: Advances in Creativity and Giftedness (ACAG, volume 3)

Sections

Buy it now

eBook USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.

Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
    PDF

  2. Theoretical Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      PDF

    2. The Social Construction of Giftedness

      • Laura Mazzoli Smith, Jim Campbell
      Pages 1-22

    3. Studying the Family

      • Laura Mazzoli Smith, Jim Campbell
      Pages 23-41

    4. Methodology

      • Laura Mazzoli Smith, Jim Campbell
      Pages 43-59

  3. The Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 56-59
      PDF

    2. The Booths’ Tale

      • Laura Mazzoli Smith, Jim Campbell
      Pages 61-76

    3. The Breakwells’ Tale

      • Laura Mazzoli Smith, Jim Campbell
      Pages 77-93

    4. The Newlands’ Tale

      • Laura Mazzoli Smith, Jim Campbell
      Pages 95-111

    5. The Desmonds’ Tale

      • Laura Mazzoli Smith, Jim Campbell
      Pages 113-128

  4. Interpretations and Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 130-130
      PDF

    2. Interpreting The Families’ Narratives

      • Laura Mazzoli Smith, Jim Campbell
      Pages 131-141

    3. Implications for Policy and Theory

      • Laura Mazzoli Smith, Jim Campbell
      Pages 143-158

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 167-181
    PDF
Back to top

About this book

What is it like to be YOUNG, GIFTED AND WORKING CLASS in contemporary England? How do working class family values support high educational achievement? What do researchers and policy makers have to learn about giftedness from working class families? These provocative questions are explored in this ground-breaking book. Most studies of giftedness focus on the characteristics of individuals, and draw upon psychological frameworks to understand them. Participants in most gifted education programmes are recruited disproportionately from the higher social classes. Sceptical of the concept of giftedness, Mazzoli Smith and Campbell question conventional methodologies, using a narrative approach to understand how four families of working class origins, each with a gifted child, construct their values in relation to education and social class. They explore the influence of their family histories, cultural values and life styles upon educational engagement and achievement. The authors show that gifted education policies are poorly matched to the values of these families and argue that much research into giftedness has been flawed by social and cultural discrimination. They propose an agenda for change in research paradigms in the giftedness field, which should be characterized by interdisciplinarity and more culturally relative conceptions of giftedness.
Back to top

Keywords

Back to top

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Laura Mazzoli Smith, Jim Campbell

Back to top

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Families, Education and Giftedness

  • Book Subtitle: Case Studies in the Construction of High Achievement

  • Authors: Laura Mazzoli Smith, Jim Campbell

  • Series Title: Advances in Creativity and Giftedness

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-991-6

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6091-991-6Published: 12 February 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 182

  • Topics: Education, general

Back to top

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top
Access via your institution

Buy it now

eBook USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Search

Navigation