Creative Writing Education for Gifted Children
Üstün Yetenekli Çocuklarda Yaratıcı Yazma Eğitimi

Author : Hilal AKÇA
Number of pages : 377-393

Abstract

The etymological origin of the concept of creativity from the Latin word "Creare" is "Kreativitaet, creativitiy" in the western languages. This word is a dynamic process which means to create, to give birth, to bring to the square, to find and to explore. Creativity is a teaching without boundaries; Science and professions. This concept, which means that emotions, imagination, intuitions are combined with the right information and motivation, is at every moment of life and everywhere because of the nature of man being creative. Creativity is actually a way of thinking; For this reason he is dragging the person into reaching a certain reason. The ability to grasp the relationship between abstract or concrete objects with the help of concepts and perceptions, abstract thinking, reasoning, and ability to use these mental functions in a concerted way is called intelligence. In spite of the fact that there are notable talent expressions and different definitions, theories about intelligence all converge at the point where there is a capacity or potential for which intelligence can be developed and where there are biological bases. According to this intelligence, the individual is innately possessed, inherited from the western branch and the functions of the central nervous system, Experience, learning, and influencing factors. In this study, it was aimed to manifest by taking the concept “creativity” into account that, out of highly-gifted students, ones exhibiting extraordinary performance in the domain of verbal language competence in comparison with the others can prove to be successful after receiving creative writing trainings. Suggestions were proposed for the gifted children and the educators by compiling a great deal of sources on creative writing and references were made to the sources that they can make use of.

Keywords

creativity, verbal language competence, creative writing

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