ABSTRACT

Gifted education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has developed significantly since its tentative beginnings in 1969. Increasingly, however, there are concerns that gifted education is not meeting its objectives. Based on the Ziegler-Balestrini-Stoegerian framework, we evaluate Saudi gifted education from a macro-systemic perspective, including the identification of the ten important exogenous and endogenous capitals and the six principles (law of the minimum, continuity, developmental level, support systems, control system and external management). Using information obtained from 25 source documents, we conduct an automated content analysis using Leximancer to find information related to each of the ten capitals and six principles. Our finding that the absence of a clearly articulated set of objectives and expected outcomes impact the system on many levels, and that, at best, Saudi gifted education is best described as a proto-system.

摘要

自 1969 年初步开始以来，沙特阿拉伯王国的天才教育取得了长足的发展。然而，越来越多的人担心天才教育未能达到其目标。基于 Ziegler-Balestrini-Stoegerian 框架，我们从宏观系统的角度评估沙特的资优教育，包括确定十大重要的外生和内生资本以及六大原则（最小法则、连续性、发展水平、支持系统） 、控制系统和外部管理）。使用从 25 个源文档中获得的信息，我们使用 Leximancer 进行自动内容分析，以查找与十个大写字母和六个原则中的每一个相关的信息。