Looking Through the Glasses: J. D. Salinger's Wise Children and Gifted Education
2002; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 46; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/001698620204600102
ISSN1934-9041
Autores Tópico(s)Education Methods and Practices
ResumoGifted children are often Big Picture thinkers (Schultz & Delisle, 1997). Even as young children, they may ask profound questions and view life from the perspective of The Most Important Things: meaning, goodness, truth, spirituality, death, and the like. J. D. Salinger's stories about the gifted and precocious Glass children offer a vivid, provocative, and very useful description of a spiritual Big Picture perspective on life. This essay describes the Glasses' spiritual development and draws out implications of their thinking and dilemmas for a critique of gifted education. It suggests that gifted education can adequately address the spiritual life of gifted students and other “Big Picture” perspectives only by becoming concerned with educating gifted children for life.
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