Examination of parents’ anxıety about their gifted children’s education

Abstract

Sciences and Arts Centres provide opportunities of creating and applying projects to the individuals who has superior intelligence. In this study, parents’ ideas about future job choices of their gifted children, limitations in social settings, efficiency of physical conditions of institutions, education of teachers and benefits of Sciences and Arts Centres has been searched. Twenty-one teenagers’ parents have participated voluntarily. In this qualitative research, both secondary school and Sciences and Arts Centres’ absence of physical opportunities of buildings, lack of laboratories and materials has been identified as problems. However, results emphasise that these centres lead children to be interested in natural sciences, arts and mathematics. Furthermore, the Ministry of National Education should assign the Provincial Directorates for National Education to give seminars and conferences to inform teachers and parents to realise the differences of gifted children in early ages. It may also be advantageous to prepare brochures, posters, and handbooks to give them.

Keywords: Superior intelligence, gifted, sciences and arts centrs, teachers, education