Browsing by Author "Järvenpää, Sampsa"

The goal of this bachelor’s thesis was to understand what giftedness is and especially how giftedness and creativity are related to each other. Another goal of this thesis was to increase the amount of Finnish literature within the area. The chosen research questions were: “how does giftedness and creativity present themselves in the chosen articles?” and “how can giftedness and creativity be supported?” The questions were chosen as these after reviewing relevant theoretical framework of the area, in order to be able to make conclusions from already existing research. This bachelors’ thesis was done by a literature review. In the beginning four relevant theories were explained to gain an understanding of the theoretical framework within the subject (Tannenbaum, Renzulli, Amabile and Dweck). Then five academic research articles were chosen and analyzed with the research questions in mind. The articles have been gathered using academic search websites such as EBSCOhost, Google Scholar and University of Helsinkis’ own Helka portal. In addition references have been found from University of Helsinkis’ Kaisa-library and with the help of this thesis’ supervisor Risto Hotulainen. The research articles have been analyzed so, that relevant areas to the research questions have been taken to account. One of main findings of the research was the differences between intelligence and creativity as well as the differences between academic giftedness and creative giftedness. The environmental role in the support of giftedness and creative rose also from the data. The entire research shows, that giftedness and creativity are connected and that creativity is a part within giftedness.