Casting Minority Gifted Students: The Pedagogical Impact of Cinema on the Culture of Schooling

<p>African American students are significantly underrepresented in gifted education programs. This dissertation creates a space where gifted education, African American students, media literacy, and teacher perceptions intersect in the field of curriculum studies. Media literacy will be utilized to critique popular films by gifted endorsement teacher-students and myself. Due to the low number of states that require pre-service teachers to study gifted characteristics of children it is left up to gifted teacher endorsement programs to train teachers. By using media literacy to examine films in gifted teacher endorsement programs, I assert that the under-representation of African American students in the referral process for gifted education programs can be positively impacted.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education in Curriculum Studies (Ed.D.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading

Year dc:date.available

2013

Author dc:creator

• Burnette, Deborah F.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Marla Morris
• Ming Fang He
• Diane Saturday

• ETD
• Curriculum studies
• Gifted Education
• Media literacy
• African American students
• Teacher perceptions
• African American Studies
• Curriculum and Social Inquiry

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/63

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1063