How School Affords Students’ Talent Development: An Autoethnography Study

Abstract

本文旨在探究環境可賦予性與學生能力培養之間的交互作用，以及其互動下學生之成果展現。研究者採用生態觀點，亦即研究人與環境之間的關係，探討心理社會因素與物理環境因素如何影響學生的才能培育，以及這些環境因素如何促進學生之才能展現。研究發現學校環境對學生的才能發展扮演重要角色，物理環境和社會環境都可以促進學生的才能發展，另外，環境可賦予性應與可展現行動的學生能力相互搭配，以促進其發揮最大潛能。研究者另指出，學校應該消除教育中的系統性障礙，並提供的學習機會來培育學生的才能發展，資優教育的價值並非是針對特定學生進行特別的教育，而是要以資優的眼光看待每位孩子，以發揮最大優勢的方式予以啟發。

This research was examining the dynamic flow through exploring the relationship between the affordance and the effectiveness, and the outcome of this transaction. In the study, autoethnography is adopted as the research method. The researcher adopted the ecological (person-in-situation) view and investigate on how various social and physical factors influence individuals’ potential to engage talented transactions, and how individuals develop this potential through transactions with the social and physical features of the environment.The research found the school context played an important role on students’ talent development. Not only physical environment but also social environment could promote successful talent transactions. In addition, affordance which the context offers should combine with the effectivity which are behaviors that a student can produce so as to actualize possibilities of action in order to help students realize their maximum potential.The researcher also addressed school should remove the systemic barrier in our education and provide various learning opportunities to afford student’s talent transaction. The value of gifted education does not mean to give exclusive education to certain students, but to treat each child with a gifted vision and inspire each child in a way that maximizes their strengths.