O cinema e a história de vida: representações de um estudante com altas habilidades/superdotação acerca da identidade resiliente

Abstract

This research is focused on the theme of high abilities / giftedness (HA/ G) using, methodological approaches Photography and Cinema, with its imaging capabilities and audiovisual narratives, respectively. This research has as main objective the study of the life story of a student, formally identified as eligible for the gifted behavior (GB), and its representation on the resilient identity. This study has the following objectives: Find the representations of a student HA / G about the identity and resilience; Understanding how the student with HA/ G perceives the (im) possibilities of their identity-building process with regard to resilience; Investigate what are the aspects that permeate and / or enable the construct of resilient identity, according to the student representations with HA/ G; Meet the student's life story with HA/ G and their (re) meanings as core to their identity building process. This research theoretically characterizes it is the qualitative approach, type of case study, using the method of the Life History. Thus, data collection will be through narrative interviews (NI), which will be guided by "Topics Guide", organized in line to the research objectives. Narratives will be raised by experiencing the film works on the theme of HA/ G and resilience. Also it is expected to use a "Field Diary" in order to record the impressions of the researcher of non-verbal manifestations of the research subject during the exhibition of the films. Already the narratives of NI will be recorded and transcribed for later analysis. It is expected also to collect visual data corresponding to pictures that will be produced by the research subject in the course of investigative work. The visual data will be transformed into verbal data through informant's narratives on these photographic images, which in turn will later be converted into written data (textual). The analysis of selected data corresponding to content analysis (CA), proposed by Bardin (2011). We conclude that the respondent is recognized to be a person with high ability / giftedness and I believe this is something well defined because of its identification was performed early. Regarding resilience it is a relatively resilient person and believes think the best way to have a resilient behavior is to develop self-awareness and action guided by reason. For him resilience is represented as a movement is the opposite of stagnation. A remarkable aspect involve no denial of the reality however difficult it may be.