Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:37:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Denise Rocha Belfort Arantes.pdf: 556753 bytes, checksum: 868752fd2ea751a08e75aae92ceb6d05 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / From professional demands, I became interested by deepening the studies of high ability/giftedness and, to the extent that I was discovering more, under the educational focus was questioning me about the relevance of a study on how this phenomenon would impact these people. In the literature, there are studies whose focus is on student, in public policies and in educational programmes for he created, while the emotional aspects and characteristics regarding their affective development have been little explored. This study aims to understand how five people with high ability/giftedness position themselves in the world, through reporting experiences experienced as significant. I use the theoretical reference Marion Milner, to assist in understanding the way how to deal with his creativity and how this impacts on your personalia. Based on the phenomenological method, which allowed to extract the units of meaning present in the interviews conducted, for later psychoanalytic discussion. This survey was conducted in a qualitative vertex, the data were collected through interview, partially open and semi-structured, which led to reports in the form of testimonials, with people with high ability/giftedness, young people and adults. Seven people were interviewed, and for the analysis, after Eidetic reduction, were rewritten and made five. It was concluded that can be hard to be a person with high skills/giftedness, when their host needs are not met. But if she can integrate, through creativity, your interiority, will be facilitated their adaptation to the world by printing it a personal brand, making it habitable / A partir de demandas profissionais, interessei-me pelo aprofundamento dos estudos a respeito das altas habilidades/superdotação e, na medida em que descobria mais a respeito, sob o enfoque educacional, me questionava sobre a relevância de um estudo sobre como esse fenômeno impactaria essas pessoas. Na literatura, há estudos cujo foco está no aluno, nas políticas públicas e nos programas educacionais para ele criados, enquanto que aspectos emocionais e características relativas ao seu desenvolvimento afetivo têm sido pouco explorados. Este estudo pretende compreender a forma como cinco pessoas com altas habilidades/superdotação se posicionam no mundo, por meio do relato de experiências vivenciadas como significativas. Utilizo o referencial teórico de Marion Milner, para auxiliar na compreensão do modo como lidam com sua criatividade e como isto influencia em suas pessoalidades. Baseei-me no método fenomenológico, que permitiu extrair as unidades de significado presentes nas entrevistas realizadas, para posterior discussão psicanalítica. Esta pesquisa foi realizada em vértice qualitativo, os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevista, parcialmente aberta e semiestruturada, que levou a relatos em forma de depoimentos, com pessoas com altas habilidades/superdotação, jovens e adultas. Foram entrevistadas sete pessoas e, para a análise, após redução eidética, foram reescritas e apresentadas cinco. Concluiu-se que pode ser difícil ser uma pessoa com altas habilidades/superdotação, quando suas necessidades de acolhimento não são satisfeitas. Mas se ela puder integrar, por meio da criatividade, sua interioridade, será facilitada a sua adaptação ao mundo, imprimindo nele uma marca pessoal, que o torna habitável

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:52:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ELISANGELA MOREIRA BORGES.pdf: 5285446 bytes, checksum: a1d661b06dea99b8aa443902e7325cda (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-14 / This research was to study the proposed central possible link between giftedness and learning disabilities, seeking to understand how this difficulty manifests itself in the behavior of pupils in schools with high abilities / giftedness. Furthermore, aimed to demonstrate the specificity of the learning process of gifted students and, finally, present the theoretical contributions that seek to understand the possible relationship between students with learning disabilities even being identified with giftedness. This study adopted the theories of Vygotsky in a culturalhistorical perspective and postulates Bernard Charlot and learn about the relationship that the subject establishes with this knowledge. Also featured contributions from Patto and Tiballi. Also had the backing of the theoretical contributions of Renzulli, Winner, Virgolim, Pérez, and Gardner Delou studying giftedness in particular. Through empirical research carried out in two public schools in Goiânia and from the systematization and analysis of data obtained through field research with eighteen students, of whom eight had high ability / giftedness and ten, learning difficulties, it became clear that the school still faces hurdles in securing all systematic knowledge acquisition, since it deals with learning difficulties as factors inherent to the student. For the student who shows the correlation between learning disabilities and giftedness, this reality becomes even tougher, since misconceptions permeate this relationship between the student and the school. One of them concerns the belief that students with high abilities / giftedness has no learning disability, another is that they do not need to be accompanied therefore have sufficient conditions to carry their roles as students autonomously and without the mediation of a more experienced person. Teachers have not been able to help students overcome their difficulties, often leading them to school failure. / A presente pesquisa teve como proposta central estudar a possível relação entre a superdotação e a dificuldade de aprendizagem, buscando apreender como esta dificuldade se manifesta no comportamento escolar do aluno com altas habilidades/superdotação. Além disso, objetivou-se evidenciar a especificidade do processo de aprendizagem dos alunos superdotados e, por fim, apresentar as contribuições teóricas que buscam compreender as possíveis relações existentes entre os alunos com dificuldade de aprendizagem mesmo sendo identificado com superdotação. Este estudo adotou as teorias de Vigotski em uma perspectiva histórico-cultural e dos postulados de Bernard Charlot acerca do saber e da relação que o sujeito estabelece com este saber. Contou também com as contribuições de Patto e Tiballi. Teve ainda, o respaldo dos aportes teóricos de Renzulli, Winner, Virgolim, Pérez, Delou e Gardner que estudam a superdotação em especial. Por meio da pesquisa empírica realizada em duas escolas públicas estaduais de Goiânia e a partir da sistematização e da análise dos dados obtidos através da pesquisa de campo com dezoito alunos, dos quais oito tinham altas habilidades/superdotação e dez, dificuldade de aprendizagem, evidenciou-se que a escola ainda encontra obstáculos em garantir a todos, a aquisição do conhecimento sistematizado, já que trata as dificuldades de aprendizagem como fatores inerentes ao educando. Para o aluno que apresenta a correlação entre dificuldade de aprendizagem e superdotação, essa realidade ainda se torna mais dura, já que equívocos permeiam essa relação entre o aluno e a escola. Um deles diz respeito à crença de que o aluno com altas habilidades/superdotação não apresenta dificuldade de aprendizagem; outro é que eles não precisam ser acompanhados, pois, teriam condições suficientes de desempenharem seus papéis como estudantes de maneira autônoma e sem a mediação de uma pessoa mais experiente. Os professores não têm conseguido ajudar os alunos a superarem suas dificuldades, levando-os muitas vezes ao insucesso escolar.

Este trabalho tem por finalidade pesquisar a criatividade na identificacao e selecao de criancas e adolescentes portadores de altas habilidades, com carencia socioeconomica, em uma amostra de dez jovens. A superdotacao ou altas habilidades tem sido objeto de estudo sobretudo quanto aos aspectos cognitivos e necessidades educacionais. Existem dois tipos de superdotacao: uma academica ou escolar e outra criativo-produtiva ou talentosa. A superdotacao academica e representada por altos niveis de desempenho escolar, boa memoria, grande atividade intelectual, processamento de informacoes complexas, pensamento analitico, critico e logico. Por outro lado, a superdotacao criativo-produtiva estaria mais ligada a curiosidade, resolucao de problemas e caracteristicas do pensamento criativo como originalidade, fluencia e flexibilidade. O conceito de um individuo superdotado e associado a tres conjuntos de tracos: habilidade acima da media em alguma area do conhecimento; envolvimento com a tarefa (motivacao, perseveranca, concentracao) e criatividade (ideias diferentes, novos significados), podendo se destacar nas seguintes areas: academica, criatividade, lideranca, artistica, psicomotora e motivacao. O nao preenchimento das vagas ofertadas para bolsistas no Projeto legitima o questionamento se a causa e a valorizacao apenas do tipo de superdotacao academica em detrimento da criativo-produtiva; ao pesquisar a forma como a criatividade e abordada no processo de selecao e a importancia atribuida aos aspectos criativos demonstrados pelos candidatos, espera-se obter a explicacao para uma oferta de vagas maior do que o numero de selecionados, ainda que mil novecentos e noventa e sete candidatos tenham se candidatado ao processo.Os dados para a pesquisa sao coletados por intermedio do trabalho de uma equipe de psicologas que prestam servicos para uma Instituicao sem fins lucrativos com o proposito de selecionar individuos com altas habilidades. Analisar-se-a de que forma a consideracao do aspecto criativo desses jovens e avaliado no processo seletivo, tendo como parametros teoricos os conceitos para a criatividade de Winnicott, bem como autores que tratam da criatividade especificamente na superdotacao, como Renzulli e Reis. A maior parte das caracteristicas de individuos criativos, tais como autoconfianca e independencia, nao-conformismo, senso de humor, interesses esteticos, impulso para realizacao, desejo de descoberta e ordenacao, estao ligadas ao conceito de self verdadeiro e do seu gesto espontaneo, bem como ao desenvolvimento da area da transicionalidade, aquela que nao pertence a realidade objetiva nem a subjetiva. Apesar da criatividade ser avaliada como uma das competencias que definem o desempenho do candidato e, portanto, determinam seu ingresso no projeto, nao se prioriza na selecao desses jovens o aspecto criativo / This work has the objective of researching creativity to indentify and select gifted children and teenagers with social and financial needs, within a ten individuals sample. Giftedness, or high abilities, has been object of study specially regarding the cognitive and educational needs aspects. There are two kinds of giftedness: one is academic or scholar and the other one is creative-productive or talented.The academic Giftedness is represented by the high level of school performance, good memory, great intellectual activity, processing of complex information, analytic thought, critic and logical. On the other hand, the creative-productive giftedness would be more related to curiosity, solving problems and characteristics of creative thought such as originality, fluency and flexibility. The concept of a gifted individual is associated to three sets of traces: ability higher than the average in any field of knowledge, task involvement (motivation, perseverance, concentration) and creativity (different ideas, new meanings), standing out on the following areas: academic, creativity, leadership, artistic, psychomotor and motivation. When scholarships are not fully distributed within the Project it legitimates questioning if the reason is the valorization of only the academic gifted individual letting aside thecreative-productive; while researching how creativity is addressed in the selection process and the importance given to the creative aspects demonstrated by the candidates, it´s expected to obtain the explanation for an offer of scholarships higher than the number of selected students, even thought one thousand and ninety seven candidates have applied to the selection process. The research data is collected by a team of psychologists through volunteer work to a Nonprofit Organization with the purpose of selecting such gifted individuals. It will be analyzed in what way the consideration of the creative aspect of these young individuals is evaluated within the selection process, having as theory parameters Winnicott´s creativity concepts, as well as authors also dealing with creativity especially when the subject is giftedness, such as Renzulli and Reis. Mostly the characteristics of creative individuals, such as self-confidence and independency, non-conformism, sense of humor, aesthetic interests, desire of discovery and to maintain order, are related to the true self concept and to its spontaneous gesture, as well as to the development in the transitional area, the area not belonging to the objective reality neither to the subjective. Even though creativity is being evaluated as one of the subjects defining a candidates performance and, therefore, determines his or her ingress into the project, the creative aspect it´s not prioritized in the selection of these young people

Orientador: Carina Alexandra Rondini / Resumo: O estudo sobre as Altas Habilidades/Superdotação (AH/SD) na perspectiva da educação inclusiva tem gerado discussões acadêmicas, em especial quanto a necessidade de sinalização/identificação destes estudantes para uma prática pedagógica efetiva. Dentre os desafios dessa prática que interferem diretamente na avaliação dos estudantes, encontra-se a falta de instrumentos validados e normatizados para o contexto brasileiro. Para tanto, o objetivo desse trabalho pautou-se na adaptação para o contexto brasileiro e na busca por evidências de validade de conteúdo das Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students (SRBCSS-III), elaboradas por Joseph Renzulli e cols. Os procedimentos para realização do processo incluiram: tradução, síntese, retrotradução (backtranslation), revisão por um comitê de especialistas e avaliação semântica com o público-alvo (professores). Os resultados apontaram alto grau de concordância dos itens pelo Comitê de Juízes especialistas, medido pelo Índice de Validade de Conteúdo - IVC (87%), bem como alto grau de concordância verificado por meio da Análise Semântica realizada com os professores (90%), o que ampara um instrumento de fácil compreensão ao seu público-alvo. / Abstract: The study on high abilities/giftdness in the perspective of inclusive education has generated major academic discussions, especially regarding the need for signaling/ identification of these students for an effective pedagogical practice. Among the challenges of this practice that directly interfere in the evaluation of students, is the lack of validated and standardized instruments for the Brazilian context. Therefore, the purpose of this work was to translate and validate to the Brazilian context the Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students (SRBCSS-III), elaborated by Joseph Renzulli. Procedures for carrying out the process included: translation, synthesis, backtranslation, review by a committee of experts and semantic validation with the target audience (teachers). The results showed a high degree of concordance between the items by the Expert Judges Committee, measured by the Content Validity Index (IVC) (87%), as well as a high degree of agreement verified through the Semantic Analysis performed with teachers (90%), which provides an easy-to-understand tool for your target audience. / Mestre

Parenting stress (PS) is a phenomenon experienced by all parents to varying degrees due to the demands of meeting a child's needs. This distinct type of stress is caused by an imbalance between the perceived demands of parenting and the perceived coping resources available to parents. The construct of twice-exceptionality (2E) is defined as the co-occurrence of giftedness and disability or possessing both high cognitive abilities and at least 1 of 13 potential disabilities identified under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004. The purpose of this study was to understand how PS is experienced by parents of children who have been identified with 2E. The theoretical perspectives of stress appraisal, coping, and attribution guided this study and provided a framework for understanding the lived experiences of parents and the meaning they ascribe to these experiences. The goals of the study were accomplished through in-depth interviews with 13 participants, an extensive literature review, and reflective journaling. Interview data were analyzed using the phenomenological techniques of epoche, bracketing, horizontalization, and imaginative variation, and several relevant themes and subthemes were developed. High levels of PS described by the parents in this study indicate that further research is indicated for better understanding and serving the significant needs of this population. The social implications of this research include raising awareness of PS and 2E; increasing the potential for positive outcomes for children and families; and addressing misconceptions concerning giftedness, gender bias in the perceptions of parental roles, and the impact of PS on family systems.

Research on talent development has focused on K–12 and adult eminence. This investigation addressed the gap in knowledge regarding talent development between the ages of 18 and 27. The purpose was to explain how a group of emerging adults continued to develop their writing ability into talents valued by themselves and society. The key questions investigated the role of self-perception of high ability in writing in the process of talent development as a lived experience, and the relationship of high ability to adult identity formation. The study also investigated how changes in family relationships and the establishment of independence related to talent development in emerging adulthood. It was a multiple case study of 7 creative writers from top-20 MFA programs. The study results indicated a number of findings. Development of writing talent in emerging adulthood is related to achieving adult identity and independence. Self-perception of high ability was universal, as was creativity. Achievement represented the confluence of intention, intellect, volition, knowledge, and imagination expressed as original work. The psychological process of differentiation and integration was used in adapting to achieve individual goals. Achieving identity for these writers and poets meant finding their voices. Ability was a pervasive factor in achieving identity. Parents, teachers, and peers guided and believed in the subjects’ ability. Family support was generally unconditional. Family mental health issues did not prevent talent development and fathers had a strong impact on sons and daughters. Independence was related to identity and represented having established primacy of self-authority. Contrary to theory, participants benefited from continued institutional support.

The purpose of this study is to investigate factors which can influence the emergence of high musical ability during the developmental process of musical talent achievement, comparing students in Seoul (Korea) and those in Sydney (Australia). The main focuses of the investigation concern the comparison of musical giftedness demonstrated in early childhood, the developmental process, and various factors, such as the environmental and intrapersonal, which can affect the emergence of talent, especially in those of different cultural backgrounds. For this purpose, Gagn????s Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent (DMGT, Gagn??, 2003) was adopted as an analytical tool for the present study, in particular for empirical research. A total number of 137 students and 88 parents participated in this research. Student participants consisted of two groups: young musicians aged below 10 who show high musical achievements; and teenage students who are musically superior. All students completed a questionnaire, and their parents also completed a questionnaire. Data showed some significant differences between students in the two countries. Three research instruments are employed based on Harnischmacher (1997). SCI (the Self-Concept Scale of Instrumental Abilities), GOP (Goal Orientation of Practice) and EAD (External Action Distraction) were included in the student questionnaire in order to examine intrapersonal catalysts (motivation) which can affect the developmental process of musical talent. A significant difference was found in SCI between countries. Self-concept of student groups in Sydney was significantly higher than that of students in Seoul among all age groups concerning musical abilities. However, there were no significant differences in GOP and EAD between students in Seoul and Sydney. Other differences emerged concerning the role of parents, expenditure on music lessons, time spent on practice, and environmental factors. In particular, cultural milieu was revealed as one of important environmental factors in the present study.

This phenomenological study was conducted in order to understand the everyday experiences of contemporary mystics in the Jewish traditions of Kabbalah. This author could find no available information about psychological research of this topic in psychological, educational or psychiatric databases. She used the applied phenomenological methodology of Howard Pollio and the Research Groups at the University of Tennessee. Interviews were conducted by this author with eight volunteer, living, adult participants who lived throughout the United States and ranged in age from 37 to 60+ years. These mystics were found through various means after they had described themselves, by their own definitions, as mystics in the Jewish traditions(s) of Kabbalah. There were six men and two women who participated; four were Jewish and four were not. The interviews ranged from one to three hours in length, were recorded, and later transcribed for confidential analyses. After analyzing the results, the Ground of the participants’ experience was determined to be Being Aware. The Thematic Structure of the participants’ everyday experiences of living with their mystical events and processes contained six themes: 1) Divine/Sacred, 2) Receiving/Calling/Gift, 3) Knowing/Realizing, 4) Practices/Body, 5)Developing/Stages, and 6) Struggling: Self/Others/World. Implications for this study suggest that the everyday experiences of these mystical participants are different in many ways from everyday experiences of non-mystics. There is some support for the ideas of spiritual intelligence, spiritual giftedness, consciousness advancement. Appreciating intuition, higher emotional states, and the deeper, yet usually hidden parts of human experience, along with learning to identify and support young people who are having mystical experiences is a worthwhile goal for psychologists.

InSwedenhaving a high degree of intelligence is controversial and giftedness is not always seen as an asset.  Twenty-four gifted adolescents from the high-IQ organization MensaSwedenresponded to questions about their sense of coherence as well as to open-ended questions about how their intelligence affected their lives in the contexts of school, friends, and family.  A thematic analysis of the open-ended questions was performed.  Most of the participants wrote about school being under-stimulating and not fitting them.  In the cases where school was seen as stimulating, this was due to individual teachers or school systems other than the traditional Swedish school.  In the context of friends, the adolescents felt support and viewed their friends as an important part of their lives, although good friends were hard to find, especially before secondary school.  Like friends, the family was mostly seen as a positive context where the adolescents could find support.  A majority of the participants felt they had trouble fitting in with people in general, with the exceptions of close friends and family.  The implications of these results are that the Swedish school system needs to be more flexible and that despite school being seen as negative in many cases, friends and family act as buffers to promote adolescents' well-being.

Denna studie handlar om de barn som tycker att skolan är väldigt lätt och om deras rätt att få stimuleras och utvecklas utifrån deras behov. Syftet med mitt arbete är att ta reda på hur pedagoger uppfattar dessa begåvade elever och hur de arbetar för att stötta dem på ett pedagogiskt utvecklande sätt. Efter att ha gått igenom relevant litteratur inom mitt område så använde jag mig av kvalitativa intervjuer för att få svar på mina frågeställningar och genomförde intervjuer med tre verksamma pedagoger. Mina slutsatser blev att begåvade barn inte är något som det pratas mycket om och att det kanske är lätt att det fokuseras för lite på denna elevgrupp. Mina respondenter hade svårt att skilja på begåvade och högpresterande barn men menade att ett begåvat barn är ett barn som lär sig väldigt snabbt utan några hinder. Alla mina intervjupersoner visade dock en medvetenhet kring vikten av att möta varje individ där hen befinner sig och de menade att man tillsammans med eleven måste finna vad just den eleven behöver arbeta med för att fortsätta utvecklas. Alla barn har rätt att stimuleras och tycka att skolan är viktig och lärorik. / This study is about the children who think that school is very easy and about their right to be stimulated and develop based on their needs. The purpose of my study is to find out how teachers perceive these gifted students and how they are working to support them in an educational developmental way. After going through the relevant literature in my field I used qualitative interviews to answer my questions and conducted interviews with three working teachers. My conclusions are that gifted children are not something that is discussed and it’s easy to forget to focus on this group of students. My respondents found it difficult to distinguish between gifted and high-performing pupils but said that a gifted child is a child who learns very quickly without any obstacles. All my interviewees, however, showed an awareness of the importance of meeting each individual on their level. They also said that they, together with the pupil, have to find out what that particular pupil needs to work on to continue to develop. All children have the right to be stimulated and to think that school is important and educational.