Contemporary approaches to the education of the gifted – social, individual and educational strategies

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The 21st century is characterized by changes in all aspects of our lives, caused by multiple factors. Global processes and rapid technical and technological innovations have influenced changes in an individual is economic, political, educational, cultural, media and everyday life. Success has become the imperative of the modern era, while the paradigm of quality education for the gifted and other students has become a challenge for contemporary schools. Is the quality school work model based on our experience and information which we receive or is it an education system paradigm? The work deals with paradigms of giftedness shown through the prism of quality education of gifted students within a survey research. There are a lot of empirical research on giftedness in the world, but it has been perceived the need to research giftedness continuously since the cultural influence crucially changes the paradigm of education of the gifted. Therefore, there is one constant dilemma whether the quality school work model has been based on our experience and information which we receive or it is a paradigm of education system. Contributions to the quality education of the gifted in contemporary schools should be given through researching emotions and visual perception within groups. Results of a survey research on the gifted and other students` communication through emotions in schools (Krneta, Lj.2010, 2014, 2018) have contributed to the quality communication of the gifted ones` education. Also, the aforementioned results have shown that the model of non-violent communication in interactions with others points out the creativity of the gifted and other students` products.