The family of highly gifted children

Authors

  • Miguel de Zubiría Samper Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Keywords:

Niños excepcionales, psicología infantil, familia, Colombia, Exceptional children, child psychology, family

Abstract

The starting point of this work is the investigations with the children of the street (gamines) that allowed to base the hypothesis that it suggests that of face to the infantile human development the fundamental thing is the subcultural conditions, subjective; not objective, economic. These prior conditions serve like base to support that the purpose of this investigation is in knowing the characteristics that possess the family environments of where they sprout young and excellent children; By means of daily and continuous observation of more eight years on the part of a team of professionals, it was analyzed me development of 250 very intelligent children rigorously (coefficients between 130 and 170) of the Instituto Alberto Merani in Santafé de Bogotá (Colombia) and their interaction with their families. The results suggest that very intelligent children exist in all the economic strata, but that the crucial factor its development far from being the economic thing is the cultural and educational level of their parents. Although students exist with intellectual level in all the strata, the follow-up for more than eight years showed that the development of these children shows invisible objective barriers that spread to restrain its excellent advance.

Author Biography

  • Miguel de Zubiría Samper, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

    Psicólogo de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; tiene estudios en matemáticas. lógica, biología y química; es director científico de la Fundación Alberto Merani para el desarrollo de la inteligencia.

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Issue 1: Jul-Dec 1998

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