Crianças índigo e com altas habilidades/superdotação: aproximações e distanciamentos no contexto educativo

Abstract

The educational context, more precisely the school, has been the scene of several discussions, both with regard to working methods, teaching and public policies, as well as in relation to the subject that make up this space being noted that, currently, there are many differences with respect to the characteristics of the students who attend. In this sense, the present scientific interaction research theme is indigo children and with high skills/giftedness in the school context, considering the peculiar characteristics presented by these subjects. This research had as general objective to investigate which approaches and distances in the process of education of the students with high abilities/indigo and giftedness. Specific objectives are outlined: draw up a cast of features of the indigo child, directed to the school context, analyze how teachers perceive the indigo features and high skills/giftedness, evident in the school context and understand how the relationships of indigo and features high skills/giftedness interfere in the process of education of these subjects. To this end, the methodology of this research appears as a qualitative approach, since considering the relatively little explored theme using different data collection instruments. The background of this research is not to just get a new categorization of subject or behaviors, but in order to search for new knowledge that can help in the transformation of current education, still based on the principles of normalization of the subject. The analysis of the research included the examination of the indigo features cast, shortly after with the analysis of interviews given by teachers about the characteristics of their students. In the discussion were raised approaches regarding the characteristics and perceived indicators, culminating in the realization that there is a gap in the plan's discussion of spirituality, widely described by theoretical feature as an integral element of indigo and important features for complete understanding of the subject, as well as to meet the demand that the current society requires. Keywords: High skills/giftedness. Indigo children. Education