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Pedagogy of Giftedness and Creativity - course description

General information
Course name Pedagogy of Giftedness and Creativity
Course ID 05.5-WP-PED-PGC
Faculty Faculty of Social Sciences
Field of study WNS - oferta ERASMUS / Pedagogy
Education profile -
Level of studies Second-cycle Erasmus programme
Beginning semester winter term 2020/2021
Head faculty Faculty of Social Sciences
Course information
ECTS credits to win 5
Course type obligatory
Teaching language english
Author of syllabus
  • dr hab. Marzenna Magda-Adamowicz, prof. UZ
  • dr Klaudia Kasowska
Classes forms
The class form Hours per semester (full-time) Hours per week (full-time) Hours per semester (part-time) Hours per week (part-time) Form of assignment
Class 30 2 - - Credit with grade

Aim of the course

Introduction students with basic knowledge of pedagogy giftedness and creativity (being, types of skills and creativity).

Prerequisites

Knowledge of general pedagogy, developmental psychology, general didactics.

Scope

The concept of giftedness and their typology.

A child capable of in the light of educational laws.

Characteristics of capable people.

Identification of gifted students. Psychological, strategic and nomination identification methods.

Strategies for gifted education.

Models of gifted education in history and today.

The specificity of school programs and extracurricular activities aimed at gifted students.

Methods and tools for evaluation of a teacher working with a child capable.

The evolution of the concept of creativity, and the terms synonymous.

The dimensions of creativity. Subjectivity and objectivity creativity.

Aspects relevant to the work of objective and subjective.

Development of creativity and its crises in humans.

Model of creative personality of the child and the importance of family environment.

Types of creative activity of the child and youth.

Stimulators and inhibitors work.

The concept of the work of teaching the teacher. Teacher student capable and creative.

Gifted and creative problems in learning and behavior.

Syndrome of inappropriate achievements of gifted children and creative

Teaching methods

Lectures - conventional problem, conversational and multimedia presentations

Exercise - work with text, discussion, design tasks, the method of cases, group work, brainstorming

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description Outcome symbols Methods of verification The class form

Assignment conditions

Lectures

Credit on the basis of active participation (25%) and discussion of students (25%), constructed the project (25%), written work (25%).

 

Exercises

Included with the evaluation on the basis of a written test (25%), design tasks and educational situations (25%), a multimedia presentation to a selected topic (25%) of active participation and discussion of students (25%).

Final evaluation

Positive evaluation of the test, which includes the content of the exercises (50%) and lectures (50%).

Recommended reading

M. Magda-Adamowicz, Children's creativity in a systemic perspective, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2013

 

W. Limont (2013 ). Support and education of gifted students in Poland. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 36(1), 66-83.

 

W. Limont (2009). Specific and creative abilities. In T. Subhi-Yamin (Ed.). Excellence in Education: Future Minds and Creativity (pp. 1033-1042). Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Centre for Innovation in Education (ICIE) held in Paris-France. Ulm, DE: ICIE.
 

Limont, W., Dreszer, J., Bedyńska, S., Piechowski, M. M. (2009). Overexcitability and creative attitude of gifted students. W: .S. Popek, R. E. Bernacka, C. W. Domański, B. Gawda, D. Turska, A. M. Zawadzka (red.). Psychologia twórczości-nowe horyzonty (ss. 317-326). [Psychology of creativity–new approaches.] Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie -Skłodowskiej.

 

Albert R. S., Runco M. A., A history of research on creativity, In: Handbook of creativity, (eds.) R. J. Sternberg, New York: Cambridge University Press 1999

 

Dyrda B. (2009) The underachievement syndrome of the gifted and creative children – the diagnostic approach and the research results. “The Learning Teacher Journal” Vol. 3, No 1/ 2009, s. 3-17

 

Guilford J. P. Intelligence, creativity and theit educational implications, San Diego 1968

Further reading

W. Limont (2012). ‘‘Passion of Growth’’: Giftedness and Creativity in the Theory of Positive Disintegration. In A. Ziegler, Ch. Fischer, H. Stoeger, M. Reutlinger (Eds.). Gifted Education as a Lifelong Challenge: Essays in Honour of Franz Mönks (pp.43-56). Münster, DE: LIT-Verlag

 

Dyrda B. (2011) Personal narratives of school educators on supporting the development of gifted students – a perspective from schools in Poland. “The Learning Teacher Journal” Vol. 5, No 2/ 2011

Notes

*The subject can be run every semester, in case there is not enough persons to make a group there will be individual class run during instructor hours.


Modified by dr Jarosław Wagner (last modification: 08-07-2020 17:58)