OPPORTUNITIES FOR TALENT DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN WITH GENERAL INTELLECTUAL GIFTEDNESS

The aim of the study was to verify the problem of intellectually gifted children, terminologically referred to as pupils with general intellectual giftedness. The other partial aim was to point to the lacking musical development of one kind of talent in the pupils. Finally we focused on indication of the new possibilities of how to develop the intellectually gifted pupils in the sense of the musicality with cognitive, psychomotor, and also relaxing effect. The research sample consisted of the pupils from three kinds of schools, aged from 12 to 13 years. We observed the pupils with musical talent (schools of music), pupils who were intellectually gifted (special schools) and pupils from comprehensive classes (without classification of giftedness). In the last group there were excluded the pupils who attended comprehensive elementary school and also music of art. Methods: Based on existing tests of musicality the overview of which we constructed for this study, we elaborated the test of musicality and realised research probe. The evaluation was realised by means of qualitative analysis, observation and questionnaire. Results: The study summarises briefly the knowledge of the intellectually gifted pupils and it shows the possibilities of their education by means of music with the respect to harmonious balance between intellectual and emotional intelligence of the pupils