I Agree—Well,Mostly!

In this essay, I reply to my five commentators in the October 2017 issue of the Roeper Review to my July 2017 article: “ACCEL: A New Model for Identifying the Gifted.” I respond to each in turn. I end with the question I believe most important for those of us interested in giftedness to confront at the present moment.     

Does ACCEL Excel as a Model of Giftedness? A Reply to Commentators

In this essay, I respond to commentators on my article on the Active Concerned Citizenship and Ethical Leadership (ACCEL) model for understanding giftedness. I cover a number of topics that arose in or out of the commentaries, in particular, systems inertia; toxic leadership; teaching for creativity; flight from reality; the role of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in teaching for wisdom; the developmental nature of giftedness; making a positive, meaningful, and enduring difference; IQ as a diagnostic tool rather than as a gatekeeper; meeting the needs of marginalized young people; teacher education; and retrospective studies. I conclude that the differences among all of us in this symposium are small and that we all agree that a model like ACCEL—whatever its exact terms—is needed to move the field of giftedness beyond a preoccupation with abilities, narrowly defined.     

Interdisciplinary Exploration Supports Sternberg’s Expansion of Giftedness

Robert Sternberg’s (2017) Active Concerned Citizenship and Ethical Leadership (ACCEL) framework provides a helpful way to align gifted education with the complexities of 21st-century socioeconomic and cultural environments. The recommendation that we shift away from pseudoquantitative precision in conceptions of giftedness aligns with similar recommendations in other fields including political science, economics, and mathematics. The emphases on ethics and wisdom are reinforced by analyses of the need for more ethical awareness in societies. These analyses arise from research and theory in other fields, including ethical philosophy, political science, economics, history, sociology, and journalism. These transdisciplinary similarities are interpreted to be conceptual triangulation supporting the importance of Sternberg’s model as a catalyst for the development of more holistic conceptions of giftedness and talent.     

美国天才教育目标与作用的讨论--课程设置是为少数天才还是为多数学生能力的发展

这是美国心理学专家费尔德胡森（Ｊ．Ｆｅｌｄｈｕｓｅｎ） 对当今美国天才教育组织及其多种教育模型的研究综述。１ 针对并不乐观的美国天才教育实际,费氏指出,由于天才表现在不同的领域,尽管设立了各种特殊课堂或相应的全日制教学班级,现今的公共教学对于早慧学生能力开发的作用不大。本文介绍了各种才能定向和表现模式,强调个体能力倾向抉择。费氏认为,对学生才能鉴别具有长期作用,要求研究者和教育者使高智学生理解自身才能的本质,并投入到长期发展之中     

Learning and Creativity

Creativity was an enduring interest for George Roeper. For him, gifted children represented the divergent thinkers who could change the trajectory of the world. In this 1962 presentation to parents at the school, he discussed his findings about the differences between intelligence and creativity—how they overlap, how they differ, and how they are assessed. As an active educator, George was unable to contribute as much in formal publications as he might have. Presentations such as this one are our best view into the depth and insight of the man. As a contemporaneous account, it also gives us a view into attitudes in the early years of gifted child education.     

从女性主义批评到性别批评

性别批评作为一个整合的研究模式,是对女性主义批评的扬弃和发展。性别批评的发展使文学研究扩展到社会性别现象之中,从而对文学作品中的女性和男性的性别建构进行社会文化分析。     

Reverse Engineering From Eminent Exemplars: How About a Retrospective Study Too?

In his target article, Sternberg (2017) quite rightly criticizes the approach to identifying giftedness that was initiated by Terman’s (1925–1959) classic prospective study of high-IQ children. Sternberg then recommends a number of novel approaches to both identification and education. Nonetheless, this commentator recommends that future researchers follow Terman’s example in conducting not just a long-term prospective investigation into these approaches but also a retrospective inquiry such as that conducted by Cox (1926), which constituted the second volume of Genetic Studies of Genius (Terman, 1925–1959). A retrospective study can determine whether eminent exemplars of Sternberg’s desired adults displayed the expected characteristics and experiences much earlier in childhood and adolescence. Prospective and retrospective approaches should converge, but they may not.     

Prescient … and Not Always Accounted For: The Wisdom and Foresight of George A. Roeper

When George A. Roeper enlisted the aid of Dr. A. Harry Passow and other leaders in the field to help George convert his Michigan independent school to focus on gifted children in 1956, there was only one other elementary school in the country at the time devoted exclusively to gifted child education. Though his wife and school cofounder, Annemarie, later became quite well known in the field, George also wrote and spoke extensively about gifted children and their education. Those writings and speeches were rarely published but have been preserved in The Roeper School Archives. In this first in-depth examination, George’s writings display insight and prescience about the challenges and rewards of educating gifted children, touching on problems that still preoccupy the field, such as inclusive identification and motivation, all rooted in his humanistic point of view.     

现代西方女性主义的教育理论与实践

现代西方女性主义运动从十九世纪三十年代开始经历了两次高潮。在二十世纪五十年代以来的第二次高潮中,教育成为女性主义者特别关注的领域。她们认为,传统教育无处不表现出性别化的明显特征,因此,在理论研究上必须突破传统性别角色理论、社会分工理论,以及“以男性为标准”的机会均等理论等分析框架,在实践上提倡建设性别公平化学校,进行社会公平化教育。这是现代社会文化多元的表现,也是社会民主化、现代化的重要标志。