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VariaSens de l'orientation vers l'apprentissage chez les apprentis de niveau V : entre expérience scolaire et rapport à l'avenir

The problematic of this research concerns the question of the coconstruction of the representations of intelligence between mother and daughter, according to their age and contrasted socio-cultural environments. Our goal is to show that mothers and their daughters (for whom intelligence is a part of their everyday experiences, through their academic success or failure in particular) develop representations that are close and that the age of the daughters and their socio-cultural affiliation have an effect on the closeness of their representations. 262 subjects -mothers and their daughters aged 8-10 or 13-15 from contrasted socio-cultural environments -took part in this study. The data were gathered by means of a questionnaire. By putting into perspective the mother/daughter representations (their own representations and those that they think the other conveys), we can infer a co-construction of representations of intelligence between mother and daughter. Indeed, the latter develop concordant representations and identify relatively well the representations borne by the other. These concordance effects appear to be more marked between mother and female adolescent, particularly among those from a privileged background. This tends to show that the developmental dimension and the socio-cultural affiliation modulate the co-construction of representations. Intelligence as the object of representationsThe concept of intelligence is extremely charged and valued in our society since it is, in general, associated with the notion of success. This link is particularly obvious in the area of

Prior research has been devoted to understanding how to facilitate the integration of gifted young people (Intelligence Quotient, ≥130) into classroom settings. This study investigated a typology of self-concept in gifted French high school students. Eighty-four participants, between the ages of 13 and 18 (mean age, 15.5; SD, 1.04), enrolled in heterogeneous classes completed the Genèse des Perceptions de Soi (genesis of the selfconcept (GPS) technique (L'Ėcuyer 1990), the Self-Description Questionnaire II (Marsh 1992), and the self-evaluation questionnaire concerning the perception of self and of giftedness (Guskin et al., Gifted Child Quarterly, 30(2):61-65, 1986). Using Descending Hierarchical Classification analysis (Alceste software), this study revealed five main types of self-concept for gifted young people. This study demonstrates the importance of considering the personal points of view of gifted adolescents in order to better comprehend the heterogeneous nature of their self-concept and emphasizes the need to use the specific profiles of these youth to adapt the way in which we respond to them.

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