20.500.12556/RUL-156237 Exploring mental representations of prospective teachers about gifted education using associative group analysis Teachers’ mental representations significantly shape their attitudes and guide their professional behavior. This study focuses on identifying prospective teachers’ mental representations of gifted students and their education, using the AGA technique. In a cross-sectional study, 480 prospective teachers (M$_{age}$ = 20.73 years) listed the associations about two selected concepts (i.e., gifted student and gifted education). The identified semantic categories of the prospective teachers’ associations indicate that the participants’ mental representations of gifted students primarily concern the psychosocial characteristics. These mental representations suggest that gifted students excel academically in general or in specific domains. Other psychosocial characteristics of gifted students are underrepresented, including characteristics of twice-exceptional gifted students. The analysis of associations with the concept of gifted education, on the other hand, shows the dominance of the semantic category of concrete didactic-methodological adaptations, with additional and challenging tasks predominating. Prospective teachers in their final year of study more frequently express associations with weaknesses in the implementation of gifted education in practice than prospective teachers in their first year of study. In general, the mental representations reflect an awareness of the importance of gifted education in terms of an enumeration of active working methods, differentiation, and critical reflection on existing practice. associative group analysis attitudes mental representations prospective teachers teacher education asociativna analiza skupin stališča izobraževanje učiteljev mentalne predstave nadarjeni učenci bodoči učitelji nadarjene osebe učitelji true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2024-05-15 10:56:08 2024-05-15 10:56:08 2025-08-08 13:31:22 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2024 0 0 Str. 73-92 no. 1 Vol. 35 2024 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 159.924:37.015 1469-834X 10.1080/13598139.2023.2280658 174196227 Exploring_mental_representations_of_prospective_teachers_about_gifted_education_using_associative_group_analysis.pdf Exploring_mental_representations_of_prospective_teachers_about_gifted_education_using_associative_group_analysis.pdf 1 B87D2D2B3F817DD3FBADBA7CF66BD332 020f12b711c55e73c7f47eb59af42dbf3e8397fcc76518385eded11be17c46b5 34b8bfa3-1299-11ef-af1f-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=183589 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13598139.2023.2280658 0 27ff6dbc-1299-11ef-af1f-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=183588 Pedagoška fakulteta 0 0 0