From the archive: ‘The myth of giftedness’

FORUM - ISSN 0963-8253
Volume 63 Number 2 (2021)

From the archive: ‘The myth of giftedness’
Caroline Benn pages 109-130
DOI: 10.3898/forum.2021.63.2.10

Abstract

This short piece from the Forum archive introduces Caroline Benn’s detailed critique of ‘The myth of giftedness’. Her starting point is the need to define and then demand comprehensive education as a basic educational right, set alongside a mapping of the modern giftedness movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

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To cite this article
Caroline Benn (2021) From the archive: ‘The myth of giftedness’, FORUM, 63(2), 109-130. https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2021.63.2.10

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