THE NECESSITY OF GIFTED EDUCATION IN GREEK SCHOOLS

Authors

  • Eirini Papachristou Preschool Head Teacher, Med, Msc, Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Greece

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejse.v6i3.3376

Keywords:

gifted students, special education needs, Greece

Abstract

Questions about gifted and talented students have from time to time concerned the scientific community, teachers and parents. It is widely accepted that additionally to high intelligence, characteristics such as creativity, but also social and emotional characteristics had to be taken into account in order to identify gifted students. Today the wide group of disabled people includes also gifted children or “high ability children”. In Greece the legal framework for gifted children is incomplete. It was not until 2003 and then 2008 that a low was passed, which states that people with special skills and talents could be given special educational treatment. However, this reference has never been applied. The role of a teacher in observing, recognizing and developing the giftedness and the talent of the students is particularly important. The aim of this article is to define the gifted, talented or “high abilities” students, to describe their positive and negative characteristics, as they emerge from the recent literature and finally to report the situation that has been formed in Greece as well as the steps that need to be taken.

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Author Biography

  • Eirini Papachristou, Preschool Head Teacher, Med, Msc, Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Greece
    Eirini Papachristou has studied Pedagogical Sciences at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and Applied Foreign Languages in Management and Economics. She holds two master’s degrees: "Studies in Education”, Hellenic Open University and “Cognitive and Motor Development”, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She also has an annually specialization in Special Education, University of Macedonia, Greece. She has a professional experience as a Head of the Department of Environmental, Health and Cultural Education of Primary Education of Thesprotia, Greece. Except her mother tongue, Greek, she also speaks English, German and Italian. She is currently working as a School Head in Preschool Education.

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2020-10-15

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Vol. 6 No. 3 (2020)

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