 Diversity in Gifted Education: International Perspectives on Global Issuesreviewed by Stephen T. Schroth — September 25, 2007  Title: Diversity in Gifted Education: International Perspectives on Global IssuesAuthor(s): Belle Wallace and Gillian Eriksson (Eds.) Publisher: Routledge, New York ISBN: 0415361052, Pages: 328, Year: 2006 Search for book at Amazon.com Leaders in the field of gifted education have struggled for decades attempting to balance the dual goals of equity and excellence. With Diversity in Gifted Education: International Perspectives on Global Issues, co-editors Belle Wallace and Gillian Eriksson present a fresh, innovative, and broad reaching examination of the interplay between diversity and gifted education. Although education tends to be the most parochial of fields (with the possible exception of law), Wallace and Eriksson have assembled an international group of authors who provide distinctive, disparate, and distinguishable perspectives and viewpoints. The resulting work provides a plethora of resources to those interested in diversity, gifted education, globalization, or any combination thereof. Diversity in Gifted Education should be mandatory reading for school district leaders facing the issues of equity and excellence and graduate school classes examining diversity, gifted education, or comparative education. Wallace and Eriksson eschew the more traditional organization of gifted education books... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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