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Schregel, Susanne (2020). Special Treatment for the Elites? Social Inequality and Individual Differences in Debates over Intellectual Giftedness in the Federal Republic of Germany (1980 - 1985). Gesch. Ges., 46 (2). S. 313 - 339. GOTTINGEN: VANDENHOECK & RUPRECHT GMBH & CO KG. ISSN 2196-9000

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Abstract

Questions of intellectual giftedness became a battlefield for controversies over social inequality in West Germany in the 1980s. Educational practitioners and politicians argued that strengthening special education opportunities for intellectually gifted children and teenagers might further entrench inequalities in income and education. Yet proponents and parents who suspected their child might be exceptionally talented or intelligent tended to interpret giftedness rather in terms of human difference. The issue of special education for intellectually gifted children was central to political struggles in which collective paradigms of inequalities could be challenged in the name of more individualized interpretations of difference. The ascription of specific abilities and inabilities played a formative role in this process.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schregel, Susanne UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-320196
DOI:	10.13109/gege.2020.46.2.313
Journal or Publication Title:	Gesch. Ges.
Volume:	46
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 313 - 339
Date:	2020
Publisher:	VANDENHOECK & RUPRECHT GMBH & CO KG
Place of Publication:	GOTTINGEN
ISSN:	2196-9000
Language:	German
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language HISTORY; EDUCATION Multiple languages History Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/32019