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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Educational Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1451532

The Impact of Philosophy for Children (P4C) Activities on Enhancing the Speaking Skills of Gifted Students

Provisionally accepted
Emine Balcı Emine Balcı Ramazan Eryılmaz Ramazan Eryılmaz *
  • Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Antalya, Türkiye

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    The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of Philosophy for Children (P4C) activities integrated into Turkish lessons on the speaking skills of gifted students. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected through interviews and various scales, employing a mixed-method design. The results indicated that students had positive feelings about P4C, including appreciation, curiosity, surprise, excitement, self-confidence, and empathy. They believed that P4C enhanced their problem-solving, creativity, questioning, effective speaking, and collaboration skills. However, some students also expressed negative views, tough less frequently, citing issues such as nonsense, limited time, the necessity of prior knowledge, and lack of idea diversification. Quantitative data revealed that P4C activities significantly improved the speaking skills of gifted students and notably reduced their speaking anxiety. Additionally, sex and program variables showed no significant effect on speaking skills and speaking anxiety.

    Keywords: P4C, Gifted students, speaking, skill, Anxiety

    Received: 19 Jun 2024; Accepted: 02 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Balcı and Eryılmaz. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Ramazan Eryılmaz, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Antalya, Türkiye

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