On the talented pupils' education and relevant researches made in European countries

Abstract

The paper elaborates the data obtained in the workshop dealing with talented children and adolescents in Europe, which was organized in Holland in 1991. The workshop brought together over 70 researchers from most European countries, including the author of this paper, who represented Yugoslavia. The chief value of this workshop lies in about 50 reports on educational opportunities for talented children and adolescents, ranging from legal provisions to practical measures, as well as in information on relevant researches conducted in some European countries. Even though the relevant researches have been criticized for the most part, it is evident that researches on talented children and their education in Europe have increased in number, length and scope of research during the 1980s, showing a growing concern for these problems during the early 1990s. From the reports we may conclude that most talented children attend ordinary schools and classes together with other children. The opinion prevails that things should remain so in the future, too, regardless of all the attempts made and the experience gained in introducing other forms of work with talented children.

U radu se iznose podaci koji su preuzeti iz materijala radionice o darovitoj deci i adolescentima u Evropi, održanoj 1991. god. u Holandiji. Radionica je okupila preko 70 istraživača iz većine evropskih zemalja, među kojima je bio i autor teksta kao predstavnik Jugoslavije. Osnovnu vrednost skupa čini oko 50 izveštaja o obrazovnim mogućnostima koje se pružaju darovitoj deci i mladima, od zakonske regulative do prakse, i informacije i relevantnim istraživanjima u pojedinim evropskim zemljama. Mada preovladavaju kritični tonovi o ukupnom istraživačkom radu može se konstatovati značajno uvećanje broja, obima i dometa istraživanja o darovitoj deci i njihovom školovanju u Evropi osamdesetih godina, sa izraženom tendencijom daljeg uvećanja interesovanja za navedene probleme početkom devedesetih. Na osnovu analiziranog materijala može se zaključiti, da se najveći broj darovite dece školuje u običnim školama i razredima sa ostalom decom, a preovladava uverenje da tako treba da ostane i ubuduće, bez obzira na sve pokušaje, iskustva, dostignuća i ispitivanja drugačijih oblika rada sa darovitim učenicima.