SANATÇI ADAYI ÜSTÜN YETENEKLİ ÇOCUKLARI OLAN AİLELERİN KARŞILAŞTIĞI SORUNLAR ÜZERİNE BİR ARAŞTIRMA

The institutes which give professional music education in our country accept students from different age groups. Conservatory education is in a different position in that it accepts students from middle school or even half-time schooling from elementary school. The tradition of starting the instrument education in early ages is an approved remark in institutionalized conservatories and all over the world. In those schools, in which most students are accepted as talented, gifted students who learn different can also commonly beseen. Furthermore; school, parent and student encounter lots of problems during the professional music education process. It is thought that no consistent policy can be accomplished towards those problems’ solutions and especially the families are left helpless.The support given to the gifted performer candidates, which started from the establishment of the Republic and became institutionalized in 1948, has been interrupted in the last 30 years. In the study in which ‘What are the thoughts of the families, who have gifted children, towards the problems they encountered?’ question is searched for answer, it will be dwelled on a sample family and the problems will be represented towards family’s experiences. In the phenomenology grounded study data collected by interviewing was analysed with reference to qualitative analysis techniques. It is thought that the study is unique specific to the subject, to determining the expectations of family from government, it will contribute to the field and it will give new and different thoughts for analysing the problems.