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“Myself and I”: A multi-vocal approach to the self-narratives of gifted children
Lisette Dillon Dialogical Self 2008 – CAMBRIDGEQUT, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA - Email: [email protected]
The big picture
CHILDREN’S PARTICIPATION
A global agenda involving the right of children to not wait until they are “grown-ups” to be heard and to be taken seriously
Research trends
Impact on early adolescent identity
EDUCATIONTeens, “tweens”... andgifted..?
MARGINALIZATION? RESEARCH
INTERNETPEERS
“EXPERTS”
GLOBAL FORCES
Identified as
Ten children
GIFTED
10-14 year olds
AUSTRALIA Approx: 400, 0002% of the population (AAEGT, 2008)
Children who demonstrate, or maybe capable of demonstrating, advanced abilities in one or more domains of: intellectual; creative;socio-affective or sensorimotor(Gagné, 2003)
Definition
Identification : one qualitative tool (parent, teacher, peer, self nomination)and one quantitative measure (scores from standardised aptitude or achievement tests) Gifted Education Professional Devt. Package (DEST, 2005)
My questions
• What do the “voices” of gifted children say about their lives?
• How do gifted children construct and express a sense of self in their journal narratives?
• What do the “voices” of gifted children say about their lives?
• How do gifted children construct and express a sense of self in their journal narratives?
Multi-voicing in theory
SELF
(Hermans, Kempen & van Loon, 1992)
Trans-disciplinaryNarrative Agentic
Self as a self-space: an “inner chat-room”for many different but connected voices
Over 6 months
This is about me
and my life!Today I
discovered..
THE LISTENING GUIDE (Gilligan, Spencer, Weinberg, Bertsch, 2003)
Self-narratives that contain many “I”,“me” and “my” statements
“Thin is beautiful” “become famous”
“smart girls don’t get
guys”
I should’ve tried
harder...?
Teachers are so
unfair ...
External worldEg. peers, society
Internal world reason and emotion Eg Voice of regret
Attached to rolesEg. The studentEach voice, or “I
Position” produces a different narrative.
#A Venice Forever
Contrapuntal voices
What the voices tell us...• Digital journals are ‘saturated’ with voices – eg. email addresses: wildcatgirl;
blitzthunder; gimmelife; piggyinthemiddle.
• Self-disclosure does not occur readily and will fluctuate – voices need to be looked at over an extended period.
• Very conscious of audience - stay with ‘safe’ topics (voice of caution)– unwilling to take risks regarding social acceptance
• Use a variety strategies to persuade the audience and express themselves: symbols; different fonts; creative vocabulary; literary devices.
• Number of voices not closely linked with age – finding a language to express complexity appears to be linked with age.
• Express strong voices of frustration; anger; exuberance (“over the top”); independence; distrust ; perfectionism; resistance to adult agendas; humour; anxiety about achievement.
• Highly variable – (heterogeneous)
•Multi-voicing is a way of showing respect to one’s Narrators (Czarniawaska, 2004).
• Multi-voicing is a promising means of contributing to identity research (Kiegelmann, 2007).