Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Kalem Uluslararası Eğitim ve İnsan Bilimleri Dergisi, cilt.4, sa.1, ss.11-40, 2014 (Hakemli Dergi)
It is pointed out that the discussions about gifted tend to increase
in national and international area in the last quarter of the century.
Special practices, symposiums, publications, institutions, undergraduate and graduate programs have been prepared with the parallel to these
discussions and it is said that these children have been lost so far. Alfred
Binet (b.1857-d.1911) who stated his concerns about using IQ test
which is formed in 1904 for children having learning difficulty as a
labeling instrument (Gould, 1996). Topçu (1960) stated that a genius
could not be tested, on the contrary it was a malter of insight. Leading
Turkish philosopher Farabi (b.872-d.951) claims that being intelligent
as a fact which requires not only being intelligent necessarily but also it
needs moral intellect. When discourses about gifted are analyzed, by
conforming Topçu and Farabi like Binet, the statements like not
wasting gifted in masses, labelling, seeing gifted children as a vital
capital for the county and necessity of increasing special implementation is likely to be often encountered. In practice, although children
with disability do not have schools that are equipped with necessary physical facilities in Turkey, gifted children are provided with opportunities in Bilim Sanat Merkezleri (Science and Art Centers) that are not
sustainable in terms of humanity, and provide comfort and one to one
attention. In short when all above mentioned issues are taken into
consideration, the need for presenting a critical perspective is obvious.
This study is an ontological questioning attempt in the intellect-human-society contexts