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Who are today’s young people and how are they constructed in media-consumer culture and in relation to adult cultures in particular? How are the issues of pleasure, power, and agency to be understood in the corporatized global community? How are teachers to educate young people? What new practices are required? Buy delight, kids rule, adults are dim and schools are dull. These are canons of children’s consumer cultures. In the places where kids, commodities and i… More >>
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For more than 25 years, Jim Delisle, Ph.D., consistently has been one of the most unique and influential voices in gifted education. Never afraid to question longstanding orthodoxies and speak out on controversial issues, Delisle also is notable for his empathetic and compassionate views on the many difficulties faced by gifted youth.
For the first time, his most popular writings from the past two decades have been compiled into one volume. Barefoot Irreveren… More >>
Barefoot Irreverence: A Collection of Writings on Gifted Child Education
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In this collection, the contributors look at the current spread of universalizing discourses concerning young children across the globe, examining the way these discourses, which purport to describe everyone in a scientific and neutral way, actually create mechanisms through which children are divided and excluded. The contributors to this book employ post-structuralist, postcolonial, and feminist theoretical frameworks.
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