The Investigation of Gifted Students' Perceptions about Concepts like

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine emotion and opinion of gifted students attending to Science and Art Center towards physical education course and physical education teacher. In this study, study group was composed of 46 students who attended to Science and Art Centers in Kırıkkale and Trabzon cities during the spring semester of 2013-2014 academic years. It was used qualitative research approach in this study. The drawing-writing technique was used as data collection instruments. The data obtained from participants were coded from 1 to 46. The forms of participate which did not means were excluded from the evaluation. The data collected were subject to content analysis. Categories were given according to frequencies values. Data which were collected beneath specific categories were converted table and supported with students’ views. In addition to this, 2 coders’ codes and categories were compared to see the competencies between them. To provide the reliability of data, the average reliability was calculated. In the research, 4 categories which contain cognitive structure were got about the gifted students’ views towards physical education course. These categories that “general situation of physical education course f(30)”, “ the gains of physical education course f(6)”, “the definition and features of physical education couse (f3)” and “traditional structure of physical education course f(1)”. In the consequence of analyze of physical education teachers concept, 7 categories were achieved. These categories that being negative element f(8), being transmitter and resource of knowledge f(6), being connective and integrative f(5), being justice element f(4), being router and guide f(3), being love element f(3), being exemplary character and being injustice. As a result of the study, it was found that students have positive emotions about the concepts of physical education and physical education teacher. The course of physical education is described as play, amusement, cooperation ground, and developmental domains.