Term of Award
Spring 2013
Degree Name
Doctor of Education in Curriculum Studies (Ed.D.)
Document Type and Release Option
Dissertation (open access)
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
Committee Chair
John Weaver
Committee Member 1
Marla Morris
Committee Member 2
Ming Fang He
Committee Member 3
Diane Saturday
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Burnette, Deborah F., "Casting Minority Gifted Students: The Pedagogical Impact of Cinema on the Culture of Schooling" (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 63.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/63
Research Data and Supplementary Material
No
Included in
African American Studies Commons, Curriculum and Social Inquiry Commons, Gifted Education Commons
