Through a synthesis of 25 years worth of studies concerning the lived experience of children who are gifted and talented within the context of school, a more comprehensive picture can be presented. ...The intent is to provide information for teachers, parents, administrators, and psychologists to better understand and support advanced development. How students experience and relay issues concerning identity, passion, labeling, stigma, culture, schooling, academic resistance, and bullying are discussed through analyzing phenomenological qualitative research conducted over the past 25 years.
There is a sparsity of research focusing on the experiences of Asian-Indian American students. This study describes how gifted Indian American students and their families perceived factors ...contributing to the students' academic success. Specifically, this study used a qualitative case study design to describe the perceptions of four families, each representing one case. The data collection of two open-ended interviews with both students and parents, observations during school, and student-selected artifacts was utilized to establish an in-depth understanding of their perspectives concerning the factors of home, school, culture and self. After analyzing the cases collectively, the following themes emerged: the academic home climate, parents push—but in a good way, plan for the future, the gifted label, participants' schools in the United States, teachers matter, values of Indian culture, challenges of living in the United States, model minority stereotype, parents' educational backgrounds, competition, motivation, and mindset: intelligence is a product of work ethic. Results indicated that the families believed a confluence of these factors contributed to the students' academic success.
