IDENTIFICATION OF THE CHILDREN'S GIFTEDNESS PECULIARITIES BY MEANS OF CONTEMPORARY ART: THE “BIO-ART” METHOD
Authors:   Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education, Kalinina L.Yu. , Ivanov D.V. , Nikitin N.A. 
Published: September 2021

The concept and content of the methodology for identifying the children aged 6-7 years peculiarities of giftedness by means of contemporary art are considered. The contradiction between the expediency of using the diagnostic potential of works of contemporary art in educational practice and the lack of approaches to equipping teachers with diagnostic tools, the materials of which are borrowed from actual artistic experiences, is highlighted. Taking into account the results of the study of contemporary works, the method of identifying the peculiarities of giftedness in children of the seventh year of life “Bio-Art” has been developed, which is economical and accessible to kindergarten and primary school teachers. The author's concept of “gifted behavior” occupies a central place in the conceptual foundations of the methodology, according to which the control function of the brain can be traced by the movements of the child in the process of performing creative tasks, including its result - an art product. The activity of children performing tasks is carried out according to the principle of rhizome, which is common in the works of contemporary authors, providing freedom of selfexpression, favorable for the manifestations of giftedness, integration of cognitive experience with play, various types of artistic activity, including the material of both contemporary art and mathematical, sports, linguistic objects that acquire artistic meaning. The prospects of introducing the research results into educational practice by increasing the level of teachers' knowledge about giftedness, diagnostic tools for identifying its features in children aged 6-7 years, contemporary art as a source of materials for studying giftedness are shown. The subject of the article - contemporary art as a as a meaningful basis for the peculiarities of children's giftedness identifying method. The main theme - the methodological aspects of the contemporary art use in the identification of older preschoolers and younger schoolchildren giftedness. The work Purpose - to develop a method that allows visualizing the relationship between the giftedness of a child of 6-7 years old with the peculiarities of brain development at this age in the process of performing creative tasks and using an art product. Methodology of the work: generalization of the scientific publications material, analysis of the contemporary art diagnostic capabilities in the field of the characteristics of students' giftedness identifying. Results: the concept and content of the methodology for identifying the peculiarities of children aged 6-7 years giftedness are developed on the basis of data on the diagnostic capabilities of non-classical works of art created at the end of the XX-first decades of the XXI century. Scope of results is the educational space of a kindergarten, school, extracurricular educational organizations and a pedagogical university. Conclusions. In the method of identifying the features of the 6-7-year-olds giftedness manifestations, it is advisable to use the material and methods of searching for new knowledge, tested by the authors of contemporary works, as a tool for establishing correspondences between the “gifted behavior” of a student in a multimodal educational environment and modern data on the morphofunctional development of children.