School of Education Seminar Series - Talent development and differentiation of students in talent classes
Event Details
- Date:
- Monday, 16 November 2015
- Time:
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Room:
- S402
- UQ Location:
- Social Sciences Building (St Lucia)
- URL:
- http://www.uq.edu.au/education/
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Naomi White
- Phone:
- 3365 6227
- Email:
- secretary@education.uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Event Description
- Full Description:
- In recent years, Danish education policy has increasingly focused on promoting talent development through education programs. At primary school level, one result of the focus on talent is the establishment of different types of talent classes where especially gifted students can study specific topics and be exposed to extra challenges. Thus it has become common practice for municipalities in Denmark to offer teaching to academically gifted children in so-called talent classes outside normal school hours, often in a youth school context. Researching this field I have focused on the students who apply to and follow such talent class teaching and their social and talent-related characteristics – questioning how talent is understood and differs according to the point from which it is viewed – in case studies of talent classes in connection with the evaluation of a talent development project; Bourdieu’s concepts of capital provide the theoretical basis. Based on this I have constructed a typology of talent students whose background and understanding of own talents outline how understanding and practice of talent in school relate to differences in social background.
Dr Annette Rasmussen is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Department of Learning and Philosophy. Her research interests include sociology of education, especially ethnographic approaches to educational policies and pedagogic practices, as well as issues of socialisation, evaluation, differentiation, and inequality in the educational system. Recent research and publications have focused on policies and practices of performativity and talent development in school; including a Danish book on school talent from a sociological perspective and an international collection on Performativity in Education.
Monday 16 November, 11.00am-12.00pm
Room S402, Social Sciences building
No RSVP required.
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