TITLE:
Creative Educational Practices for Inclusion of Gifted Children
AUTHORS:
Fernanda Hellen Ribeiro Piske, Tania Stoltz, Jarci Machado
KEYWORDS:
Creativity, High Abilities/Giftedness, Inclusion
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.5 No.10,
June
19,
2014
ABSTRACT: Inclusion of gifted students depends on
several aspects to happen in the school context, and one of the most important
aspects to include these children at school is creative educational practices.
Teaching with art is a good possibility to make children feel motivated to
attend school. In the school context, the inclusion of these children could
mean an important progress for science in various fields of knowledge. But many
schools are still not prepared to attend gifted, and without even realizing it,
they have exclusive and discouraging educational practices for attending these
students. In this sense, this research aims to emphasize the importance of good
teacher training for developing creativity of gifted students at school. The
method of this research was based on a study of national and international
bibliographic researches focused on the area of High Abilities /Giftedness,
inclusive education and Creativity. It is concluded that the inclusion of
gifted students depends on a good teacher work developing creativity during
their classes. The teacher as a principal mediator of the teaching-learning
process should provide creative educational practices emphasizing artistic
activities such as painting, drawings, theater among other practices for attending
gifted children. Only in this way can these students develop their curiosity
and desire to attend classes at school.