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A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION INTO LIFE SITUATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTS WHICH NURTURE THE ARTISTICALLY GIFTED AND TALENTED CHILD

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CHETELAT, FRANK JOSEPH
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187 pages
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Pennsylvania State University
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Results of a study of encouragement, nurturement and development of visual arts gifts and talents are presented, with emphasis on the special qualities of six artistically gifted and talented students and six eminent visual artists. Special qualities of home and school environments have also been emphasized.
Relatively little is known and reported in the literature about the specific characteristics that an artistically gifted child possesses, or the types of living and learning environments best suited to help this type of child realize his/her potential. The purpose of this study was two-fold: first, to identify those factors which help develop and nurture early development of artistic giftedness and talent; second, to help art teachers and parents understand more fully the factors involved in developing artistic giftedness.
The research design of this study took the form of descriptive research. This research was involved in the collection of information for the purpose of revealing pre-existing and existing conditions under which the artistically gifted art student has learned and is learning. The specific approach to collecting information took the form of a series of case studies utilizing an interview schedule of questions. There were interview schedules of questions for the students and the parents of the students. Also, the early childhoods of six eminent visual artists were reviewed using biographical and autobiographical information and differences and similarities between the six students interviewed and the six artists studied were recorded. The student-subject population was between the ages of 11 and 14 years of age.
There was a significant group of information from these interviews that shows us that many aspects of a child's environment and the adults in it appear to account for the artistically "special" child's progress in visual arts. The art teacher has a great impact on this type of child. Also, data points to the fact that there is what seems to be an "inherent characteristic" for the visual arts that parents perceive of their child at an early age.
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D.ED. The Pennsylvania State University 1982.
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-10, Section: A, page: 3190.
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Dissertation Abstracts International
43-10A
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