TITLE:
Gifted Children and Adolescents: Exploring the Perspective of a Group That Still Needs Educational Attention in Brazil
AUTHORS:
Cristina M. Delou, Fernanda S. Cardoso, Ruth Mariani, Izabel C. P. Paixão, Helena C. Castro
KEYWORDS:
Gifted, High Skills, Teaching, Educational Needs
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.5 No.13,
July
25,
2014
ABSTRACT:
Gifted and talented children are known as those with a valuable
potential that may be stimulated to the benefit of humankind. However, in many
countries they are known as those that don’t need any specialized educational
assistance or stimulation or even worse that they do not exist. In Brazil, the
educational Laws recognize this group, but the Brazilian educational system
still struggles to properly attend them. Unfortunately, most teachers and
professors that are supposed to help this group to get the best of their
giftedness and high skills for the good of these kids and humankind, currently
ignore them. In 2012 there was the 1st Meeting of Gifted Children and
Adolescents sponsored by the Brazilian Council of Giftedness. During this
meeting 21 gifted and talented children and adolescents have prepared a
document called Declaration of the Gifted
Brazilian Child to inform about their expectations and how the society may
help them. This gifted group created 8 statements that now we have analyzed and
discussed, considering their ideas, the logistics of attending their needs and
the limit of these requirements considering Brazilian laws and World rights.
According to our results these kids know what they need, what is missing and
what they lose when getting no proper educational attention. The maturity of
their requests revealed the lack of a proper formation of our professionals
involved in their education that ignore and/or suffocate them and their
potential knowledge, which may affect not only their future but also the Brazilian
development and innovation capacity.