| Owner: |
Amy Price Azano
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| Owner Email: |
azano@vt.edu
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| Paper Title: |
A Critical, Place-Based Approach to Summer Enrichment for Gifted Learners From Rural Communities
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| Session Title: |
Educational Practices in Gifted Education
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| Paper Type: |
Paper
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| Presentation Date: |
4/15/2023
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| Presentation Location: |
Chicago, IL
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| Descriptors: |
Equity, Gifted Education, Rural Education
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| Methodology: |
Qualitative
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| Author(s): |
Amy Price Azano, Virginia Tech; Rachelle Kuehl, Virginia Tech; Clint D. Whitten, Virginia Tech
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| Unit: |
SIG-Research on Giftedness, Creativity and Talent
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| Abstract: |
This study explored a place-based summer enrichment offering for gifted rural students through the lens of a critical pedagogy of place (Greenwood, 2003). To ameliorate well-documented opportunity gaps for rural students, we established a residential camp on our university’s campus where middle school students engaged in STEM and humanities enrichment courses. Inductive analysis of students’ culminating projects revealed two salient themes: (a) students thought critically about environmental and social issues specific to their rural communities, and (b) students expressed strong connections to place through artistic projects. This study suggests a need to honor rural students’ funds of knowledge (Moll et al., 1992) and sense of place when designing and implementing enrichment activities geared toward increasing equity for rural gifted students.
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| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.3102/2004935
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