Excellence Gaps in Education
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 5522
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Interests: educational policy; identification; multiple intelligences; teaching models; over-excitabilities (OEs); emotional development; metacognition; twice exceptional (2E); brain function; gifted females; gifted preschoolers; longitudinal study
Interests: systemic interplay and regulation; learning processes; talent development; educational diagnostics
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Interests: career development of gifted girls (gender issues); curriculum and teaching in gifted education (STEM, language); administration in special education
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Interests: science education; inquiry teaching and learning; educational assessment; large-scale assessment in education
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Dear Colleagues,
Excellence gaps in education are defined as the differences in rates of advanced accomplishments between various groups, which violate notions of equity. For example, despite having equal talents, only four women have won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1.8% of 219 awarded). Other excellence gaps exist in many fields between social classes, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, and many other groups. Indeed, excellence gaps in education are supposed to exist in all areas of learning and across all domains, age groups, and educational levels. They appear in a variety of forms, for example, as disparities in top performances, participation in advanced courses, enrollment in prestigious educational institutions, recommendations, scholarships, and awards.
We invite authors to broadly investigate the topic of excellence gaps and to answer some of the following questions in different domains and contexts:
- What excellence gaps exist between which groups in preschool, primary, secondary, and tertiary education institutions?
- How can we explain excellence gaps?
- How can we prepare educators and teachers to prevent excellence gaps?
- What are effective educational strategies (e.g., frontloading, preparation for bias, exposure to role models) for preventing excellence gaps?
- How can identification, selection, and placement be organized equitably?
- To what extent do stereotypes and low expectations favor excellence gaps?
- What role does social capital play in the formation of excellence gaps?
Prof. Dr. Ching-Chih Kuo
Dr. Bettina Harder
Prof. Dr. Albert Ziegler
Prof. Dr. Sen-Peng Eu
Prof. Dr. Hsiao-Ping Yu
Prof. Dr. Nicole Kimmelmann
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Niessen
Prof. Dr. Tsung-Hau Jen
Prof. Dr. Hung-Chun Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- excellence
- inequality
- equity gap
- talent
- giftedness
- expertise
- gender
- race
- ethnicity
- social class
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