Excepcionalidad y talento: otra comprensión del ser humano para hacernos más humanos

Abstract

Starting from a conceptual approach to the gifted and the talent, forms through which the human intelligence is manifested, it is sought to show the importance of the special education that these people require. Highlighting the fact that particularly in the Caribbean coast, in spite of the investigative and pedagogic work that one comes advancing from some institutions, it is little what is known about this educational population. Who the students that present are characteristic and exceptional and talented academic performance in the schools of the District? Which their fundamental characteristics are? As facilitating the development of their potentialities?. They are these some of the queries that guide the development of the investigation project «students Identification with exceptional capacities and talents in Santa Martas District», financed by Fonciencia for the year 2005 and with which is sought to build a solid conceptualization it has more than enough talents and exceptional capacities that allow the understanding of the particularities psychological singular of these youths and, this way, to base their educational orientation