Mara Sapon-Shevin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3827902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mara Sapon-Shevin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mara |
| FAMILY NAME | Sapon-Shevin |
| SIGNATURE | SAPON-SHEVIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Embodied Social Justice Pedagogy in a Time of ‘No Touch’
Student Cohorts
The study was designed to trouble the commonsense notion in the field that cohorts, groups of students who move through an educational program together, provide the optimal structure for preparing future teachers. Using collaborative inductive methods, this study by two university researchers of their teaching within a preservice education program explored the following questions: What is the relationship between the positive aspects of being a c…
To Teach with Renewed Vision
Gifted Education and the Deskilling of Classroom Teachers
Regular classroom teachers were interviewed about their perceptions of the development of a pullout gifted program in their district. Teachers' satisfaction with the selection process, their interactions with parents about the gifted program, and the ways in which the gifted program affected their conceptions of giftedness and of their own classrooms were examined. The article explores the extent to which the labeling process required teachers to…
On Being Suspicious of Technical Solutions to Political Questions
dressing similar concerns already exists in that field. The phenomenology of retardation; the politics of labeling, the psychology of deviance-all these areas have been thoroughly researched and debated. My paper called for serious consideration of the ethical and political issues which should confront us as we examine current practice and analyze and suggest future policies related to the education of gifted and nongifted children. My work and t…
The Tug-Of-War Nobody Wins
The movement in support of education for handicapped persons and the movement in support of education for children labeled have both grown more powerful and more visible in recent years. The United States, Canada, Britain, and other Western European countries have enacted legislation and changed school policies in this area. Prominent among the policy issues addressed in the United States, Britain, and Canada is the concept of mainstreaming (inte…
Mainstreaming
Mara Sapon-Shevin, Mainstreaming: Implementing the Spirit of the Law, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 48, No. 3, Multicultural Education in the International Year of the Child: Problems and Possibilities (Summer, 1979), pp. 364-381
Student Cohorts
The study was designed to trouble the commonsense notion in the field that cohorts, groups of students who move through an educational program together, provide the optimal structure for preparing future teachers. Using collaborative inductive methods, this study by two university researchers of their teaching within a preservice education program explored the following questions: What is the relationship between the positive aspects of being a c…
The Tug-Of-War Nobody Wins
The movement in support of education for handicapped persons and the movement in support of education for children labeled have both grown more powerful and more visible in recent years. The United States, Canada, Britain, and other Western European countries have enacted legislation and changed school policies in this area. Prominent among the policy issues addressed in the United States, Britain, and Canada is the concept of mainstreaming (inte…
Mainstreaming
Mara Sapon-Shevin, Mainstreaming: Implementing the Spirit of the Law, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 48, No. 3, Multicultural Education in the International Year of the Child: Problems and Possibilities (Summer, 1979), pp. 364-381
On Being Suspicious of Technical Solutions to Political Questions
dressing similar concerns already exists in that field. The phenomenology of retardation; the politics of labeling, the psychology of deviance-all these areas have been thoroughly researched and debated. My paper called for serious consideration of the ethical and political issues which should confront us as we examine current practice and analyze and suggest future policies related to the education of gifted and nongifted children. My work and t…
The Tug-Of-War Nobody Wins
The movement in support of education for handicapped persons and the movement in support of education for children labeled have both grown more powerful and more visible in recent years. The United States, Canada, Britain, and other Western European countries have enacted legislation and changed school policies in this area. Prominent among the policy issues addressed in the United States, Britain, and Canada is the concept of mainstreaming (inte…
Gifted Education and the Deskilling of Classroom Teachers
Regular classroom teachers were interviewed about their perceptions of the development of a pullout gifted program in their district. Teachers' satisfaction with the selection process, their interactions with parents about the gifted program, and the ways in which the gifted program affected their conceptions of giftedness and of their own classrooms were examined. The article explores the extent to which the labeling process required teachers to…
To Teach with Renewed Vision
Student Cohorts
The study was designed to trouble the commonsense notion in the field that cohorts, groups of students who move through an educational program together, provide the optimal structure for preparing future teachers. Using collaborative inductive methods, this study by two university researchers of their teaching within a preservice education program explored the following questions: What is the relationship between the positive aspects of being a c…
Embodied Social Justice Pedagogy in a Time of ‘No Touch’
Psychology (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gifted education (2 works) · Perception (2 works)