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"Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" Self-identity and Gifted Adolescents

abstract: Working with participants in schools for highly gifted students, this study asked adolescents to create a digital story to address the prompt, "How has your life changed since coming to this school?" Participant interviews were conducted in an attempt to determine how gifted students view their educational experiences and how those experiences influence the current development of self-identity. Digital story creation and photo elicitation methods were chosen in an effort to remove researcher bias and allow participant voices to be heard more accurately. Parent and educator interviews were also conducted. Data analysis was completed using narrative construction methods. Findings include several themes among participant self-identity influences including how labels affect participant's view of themselves, perfectionism and competitive drive function in each gifted child, necessity of intellectual challenge, appropriate learning environment helps to create self-confidence and self-identity, and grades are more important than learning for knowledge. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction 2014

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:24959
Date January 2014
ContributorsHart, Courtney Brook (Author), Ganesh, Tirupalavanam (Advisor), Margolis, Eric (Advisor), Sandlin, Jennifer (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral Dissertation
Format109 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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