Cultural framing of giftedness in recent US fictional texts.

ABSTRACT: A perennial topic of research on giftedness has been individuals' perceptions of and attitudes towards giftedness, the gifted, and gifted education. Although giftedness is a culturally constructed concept, most examination of the term's meanings and implications has used reactive measures (i.e., surveys) to tap respondents' giftedness-related perceptions and attitudes within the context of formal education. To provide a better understanding of the cultural meanings associated with giftedness-the term's cultural framing-we investigated the depiction of giftedness within a professional cultural product removed from education, namely, a large corpus of US fictional texts. We examined patterns of word usage in the vicinity of the term gift*, when used in the dictionary senses related to gifted

SUBMITTER: Balestrini DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11361604 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature