@article{article_367825, title={How to Raise Awareness in Society on The Importance of Gifted Students?}, journal={Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Education}, volume={1}, pages={1–6}, year={2017}, author={Demirhan, Eda and Elmalı, Şule and Beşoluk, Şenol}, keywords={gifted,society,views,prospective teachers}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">The aim
of this study is to reveal opinions of the prospective teachers of mentally handicapped
students on how to raise awareness in society on the importance of gifted
children to shape our future. The research has been carried out in the pattern
of phenomenological method, a type of qualitative research. The participants of
the research are consisted of 78 students in total, 46 female and 32 male, who
had been studying in the final year of the department of intellectually
handicapped teaching in 2015-2016 academic year.  In accordance with the aim, participants have
been chosen among those who had selected the “education of gifted students” course
besides being senior prospective teachers. The results of the research have
been obtained by an open-ended question: What can be done in our society to
raise awareness on the importance of gifted students to shape our future? The
answers of participants have been analyzed by using content analysis method.
According to the results of the analysis, the answers of prospective teachers
have been combined in eight subjects as a) Social media, b) Politicians, c)
Teachers, d) Families, e) Universities, f) Municipalities, g) Artists and
h)Other. Mainly we can conclude that participants’ opinions on raising
awareness on the importance of gifted children in the society are similar to
practices performed to raise awareness on mentally handicapped individuals. </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={1}, publisher={Eğitim Araştırmaları ve Yayınları Derneği (ERPA)}