The Purpose of this study is to examine elementary school teachers' and parents' attitudes toward developing a curriculum which promotes ingenious creativity in an effort to serve as a basis for a successful system in the future. For that purpose, I a...
The Purpose of this study is to examine elementary school teachers' and parents' attitudes toward developing a curriculum which promotes ingenious creativity in an effort to serve as a basis for a successful system in the future. For that purpose, I analyzed teachers' and parents' attitudes toward the necessity of implementing a curriculum which engages elementary students with inventive minds and which meets the demands for improving the benchmark of invention gifted education.
The main results are as follows;First, concerning the definition of invention gifted education, the majority of teachers and parents think it is a specialized class, meant to raise the gifted students in a specialized field and they think the invention gifted students are those who have superb talents in the creative thinking and science fields. Teachers and parents showed different opinions about how to get the information of invention gifted education. In terms of selecting the creative-thinking students, there is no mean difference between the teacher and parent groups.
Second, from research regarding the necessity of invention gifted education, teachers and parents both said it is necessary and important.
Third, from research regarding the demand for invention gifted education, the two groups said invention gifted education should be more specialized for efficiency but showed differing opinions in some details.