Pessoas com altas habilidades/superdotação: concepções da família

Abstract

The present research results from the Conclusion Work of the Special Night Education Course linked to the Education Center of the Federal University of Santa Maria. It is known that there are many myths about High Skills / Giftedness, and often the family is unaware of the characteristics and rights that these subjects have. So there was a need to know what the family previously thought about giftedness and what they think after their child is identified. The general objective was to investigate how the family visualizes the high abilities / giftedness in the child and the effects resulting from this conception in his school and social daily life. Some theoreticians were used as basements, such as Aspesi (2007); Dessen (2007); Freitas; Pérez (2012); Gardner (2001); Perez (2003), (2009), (2011); Renzulli (1986), (2014); Virgolim (2014); Winner (1998); among others to support this work. The research is qualitative, of the study case type. The instrument of data collection was the semistructured interview, which was based on a script and was recorded. A family that has a child identified with High Abilities / Giftedness was invited to participate in this research in Santa Maria, State of Rio Grande do Sul. Therefore, the analysis of the research was organized into three categories: Knowledge about High Abilities / Giftedness; Student identification process; Student development in school. The participant family is characterized by the type of separated parents, where the mother reports that only she participates in the cognitive, social and affective development of the child recently identified with High Abilities / Giftedness, and in her speech the mother reports how the child was identified, what she knew about this subject before and how the child's development at school was and is being. In this context it can be seen that it is important to research and bring to the knowledge of other professionals this theme of High Abilities / Giftedness, in order to deconstruct erroneous concepts that involve this theme.