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4.8.1 Issues Impacting Inclusive Education for Highly Able Students in South Africa - Renewed Advocacy Efforts
In post-apartheid South African education, the focus has been on empowerment through a postcolonial approach that views the discrete identification of high-ability learners as inequitable, discriminatory, and exclusionary, leaving these learners underserved with ineffective curriculum. In 2018 a collaboration between universities in the USA and South Africa developed an Institute on High Ability with a team of US gifted specialists and 25 local presenters who addressed low-income, twice-exceptional, creative, and racially and culturally diverse gifted students through workshops, school visits, and a conference. Learn about the impact of this advocacy, the challenges of implementing a postcolonial curriculum, research on the mathematically gifted, a culturally and linguistically responsive curriculum, a creative curriculum in social transformation, and future and new technologies.
Author(s):
Gillian Eriksson
gillian.eriksson@ucf.edu
University of Central Florida
United States
Dr. Gillian Eriksson is the Coordinator of the Gifted Education Program, and teaches Curriculum, Global and Comparative Education at the University of Central Florida. She has served as the USA elected delegate to the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children for 3 terms (2007-2013). She is the UCF PI for Project ELEVATE (Jacob K. Javits Grant, 2015-2020). She was the Director of the Schmerenbeck Educational Center for Gifted at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and recently initiated the Institute for High Ability there. She is widely published and a consultant editor of Gifted Education International (SAGE).
Kimberley Chandler
8kimberleychandler8@gmail.com
Director of Curriculum and Gifted Education
United States
Dr. Kimberley Chandler is the Director of Curriculum and Gifted Education for Essex County Public Schools and an Instructor of Education at the University of Virginia, USA. Previously, she served as the Curriculum Director at the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, USA where she completed her Ph.D. in Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership in gifted education administration. She served as a US delegate to the World Council, the Network Representative to the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Board of Directors and the editor of the CEC-TAG newsletter The Update.
Dimakatso Agnes Mohokare*
maki.agnes@gmail.com
Central University of Technology
South Africa
Dimakatso Agnes Mohokare is currently working at Christian Liphoko Secondary School, teaching mathematics and mathematical literacy from grade 10 -12. She holds a Bed (Hons) in both Educational Management and Professional Curriculum Studies, and is currently doing a Masters Degree at Central University of Technology in South Africa . She has done research on teaching mathematics to gifted learners and aims to use her knowledge to assist learners who are struggling especially in mathematics and show them that anyon