Altas habilidades/superdotação no curso de Educação Física da Universidade de Cruz Alta/RS

Abstract

The overall goal of this PhD thesis was to know the indicators of high ability / giftedness in students of Physical Education, University of Cruz Alta, RS. The higher education institution has a core of support for the student with special needs, providing pedagogic approach to academics. However, this sector had no official statistical data on the existence of students with high ability / gifted. In this sense, the research will contribute to the core collecting information necessary and relevant to its real purpose in seeking answers to many concerns that these students have, on the premise that the real inclusion of students with high ability / gifted only occur when education engage with them. The specific objectives of the thesis aimed to identify indicators of high ability / gifted students in the Physical Education course, describe the characteristics of indicators of high ability / gifted academic in the present, to understand the perception of academics with indicators of high ability / gifted about themselves as individuals in vocational training and contribute to the formation of teachers' degree course in Physical Education from the University of Cruz Alta. The research was conducted with 30 students from the 7th semester of graduation in Physical Education from the University of Cruz Alta, RS - which met a total of 14 students with characteristics of high ability / gifted. The profile of respondents is old people, aged over 21 years. The choice of this course is because of the same work with the psychomotor area and body-kinesthetic, thus allowing to investigate the three types of high ability / giftedness proposed by Renzulli (1986): the academic, the productive, creative and academic and productive and creative. For data collection we used three instruments: an information in order to delineate the social profile of the subjects, a questionnaire with open questions about the academic life of the subjects and their perceptions about the theme and a specific questionnaire for identifying indicators high abilities / giftedness in adults. After applying the questionnaires, the analysis and discussion of the data and came to the following conclusion: among the subjects surveyed, 7 show indicators of high / skills giftedness. This index can be projected onto other universities as well, there is an urgent need for educational policies geared to students with high ability / gifted.