Representation of gifted students' education in Croatian education research

Daroviti su učenici oni koji kognitivnim razvojem nadmašuju svoje vršnjake te pokazuju iznimnu uspješnost i izvrsnost u radu. Njihova iznimnost često im pomaže u odgojno-obrazovnim situacijama, no može im predstavljati i izvore raznolikih problema. Kako bi se problemi izbjegli, potrebno je pružati iznimnu pažnju i podršku darovitim učenicima u odgoju i obrazovanju. Republici Hrvatskoj nedostaje upravo takva iznimna odgojno-obrazovna pažnja i podrška darovitima, kao što nedostaju i radovi o njima. Sukladno tome, ovaj se rad bavi istraživanjem časopisa, čiji se radovi bave tematikom darovitih učenika – radom na dokumentaciji analizirana su 63 rada objavljena u časopisima koji izlaze periodički. Rezultati su pokazali da od ukupno 2721 objavljenog rada u odabranim časopisima samo njih 2,31% čine radovi koji se bave tematikom darovitih učenika. Prvo istraživačko pitanje dalo je odgovore o kvantitativnoj zastupljenosti radova prema različitim kategorijama – prema zastupljenosti radova u odabranim časopisima, prema godinama objavljivanja, prema autorima s područja RH i drugih zemalja, prema istraživačkim i teorijskim radovima, metodologiji, metodama prikupljanja podataka i uzorku ispitanika u istraživačkim radovima. Drugim se istraživačkim pitanjem saznalo da je među 63 radovima obuhvaćenim istraživačkom analizom najzastupljenija tematika obrazovanje i obrazovani rad s darovitim učenicima. Kategorije drugog istraživačkog pitanja bavile su se zastupljenošću karakteristika darovitih učenika, specifičnim vrstama darovitosti, metodama identifikacije, osnovnim i ostalim oblicima odgojno-obrazovne podrške.Gifted students are those who surpass their peers in cognitive development and show exceptional success and excellence in work. Their exceptionality helps them in educational situations, but it can also be a source of various problems. In order to avoid problems, it is necessary to provide exceptional attention and support to gifted students in education. The Republic of Croatia lacks such exceptional educational attention and support for the gifted as it lacks papers on them. Accordingly, this paper deals with the research of journals whose papers deal with the topic of gifted students. With the method of working on the documentation, 63 papers which were published periodically in journals, were analyzed. The results showed that out of a total of 2721 papers published in selected journals, only 2.31% of them are papers dealing with the topic of gifted students. The first research question gave us answers about the quantitative representation of papers by different categories - by the representation of papers within selected journals, by years of publication, by authors from the Republic of Croatia and other countries, by research and theoretical papers, methodology, data collection methods and the sample of respondents in research papers. The second research question revealed that out of 63 papers taken in the research analysis, the most common topic of papers is education and educated work with gifted students. The categories of the second research question dealt with the representation of the characteristics of gifted students, specific types of giftedness, identification methods, basic and other forms of educational support