A Multicultural Educational Perspective on Serving the Culturally Diverse Gifted

Abstract

Despite educators' growing concern about meeting the unique needs of gifted students from culturally diverse backgrounds, the research literature sheds little light on best practices for these populations. A multicultural education perspective can help bring clarity to issues of practice by examining these issues within two divergent philosophical frameworks: assimilationist and pluralist. These perspectives offer different views on sources of ethnic student under achievement, the purpose of schooling, procedures for identification, instructional processes, and curriculum content.