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Schregel, Susanne ORCID: 0000-0002-6465-624X (2020). The Gifted Child between Elite Formation and the Need for Help, 1978 to 1985. VIERTELJAHRSH. ZEITGESCH., 68 (1). S. 95 - 127. BERLIN: WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH. ISSN 0042-5702

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Abstract

During the conservative Wende (turnaround) in the Federal Republic in the 1980s, giftedness became a keyword in the interpretation of the behaviour and educational experiences of children and adolescents. Susanne Schregel shows how debates about the weal and woe of the gifted child were connected with controversies about elite formation, justice, and merit in a democracy She makes clear how, in a polarised political situation, the gifted child became an ambiguous figure which could be viewed in various ways according to different points of view: With references to top talent and elites, the highly gifted child promised special abilities, merits and successes. However, the figure immediately negated these terms of apex and leadership, as they were translated into terms of endangerment and the need for help. Through inner ambiguities, the figure of the gifted child is thus symptomatic for the contradictions of a society, which in turning away from the guidelines of educational policy of the 1970s began to emphasise individual selection and the promotion of elites, yet without explicitly wishing to abandon the promise of equality.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schregel, Susanne UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6465-624X UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-352394
DOI:	10.1515/vfzg-2020-0004
Journal or Publication Title:	VIERTELJAHRSH. ZEITGESCH.
Volume:	68
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 95 - 127
Date:	2020
Publisher:	WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
Place of Publication:	BERLIN
ISSN:	0042-5702
Language:	German
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language History Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/35239