Mara Sapon-Shevin

Mara Sapon-Shevin is a professor of inclusive education at Syracuse University.

She is a critic of gifted education ^[1] and turned down an offer of a place for her daughter in a gifted education program on the grounds that "I would never have wanted to raise a child who thought that she was better or smarter than other people". ^[2] She is also an advocate against bullying, especially bullying against perceived or actual members of the LGBT community.^{[ citation needed ]}

Books

• Playing Favorites: Gifted Education and the Disruption of Community, ISBN   0-7914-1980-0
• Because We Can Change the World: A Practical Guide To Building Cooperative, Inclusive Classroom Communities, ISBN   0-205-17489-2
• Widening the Circle : The Power of Inclusive Classrooms, ISBN   0-8070-3280-8

See also

• Teaching for social justice

References

1. Sapon-Shevin, M: Playing Favorites: Gifted Education and the Disruption of Community, State University of New York Press.
2. Cadzow, Jane: "Who's a clever kid, then? Archived 2006-10-20 at the Wayback Machine ", The Age, October 2005

External links

• What's best for the brightest? - an article on the debate about gifted education, where Mara Sapon-Shevin is quoted
• Who's a clever kid, then? - another article on gifted education, citing her