FEATURES OF SOCIAL AND PEDAGOGIC WORK WITH GIFTED CHILDREN IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

Abstract

In science and practice, there is an increased interest in considering the organisation of work with gifted children. Serious attention is paid to the identifi cation of gifted and talented children and the content of the work on the development of their abilities at different levels of education. Many countries have accumulated their own unique experience in working with such a non-standard category. It is interesting to compare the content and features of social and pedagogical work with gifted children in Russia and in the former republics of the Soviet Union. The Republic of Kazakhstan over the years of post-Soviet existence has accumulated serious experience with this non-standard categories of children, both in school and additional education. This circumstance allowed us to conduct a comparative analysis of the experience of socio-pedagogic work with gifted pupils in Russia and Kazakhstan and try to identify the features of socio-pedagogic work with gifted pupils in this direction. In the course of the empirical study, a survey was conducted of pedagogues of General education organisations of the Russian Federation (n=132), pedagogues of additional education organisations (n=66), pedagogues and specialists of SIRIUS educational centre in Sochi (n=27); educational organisations of Kazakhstan (n=200). On the basis of the conducted research we have identifi ed the features of social and pedagogic work with gifted children in educational institutions of various types in the territory of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan.