The Honors Project Takes Shape: One Student’s Reflections on Being Gifted

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Abstract

In this article, an honors college student reflects on being gifted. In reflecting on her giftedness, she expresses her conceptions of various characteristics of giftedness that she has experienced through drawing. These drawings and associated captions are featured in this text, and the student discusses her process of experiencing the characteristics and developing the artworks. One of her honors thesis committee members provides connections to the literature for each of the issues the student discusses.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalGifted Child Today
Volume42
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2019

Keywords

  • gifted
  • creativity
  • perfectionism
  • emotional development

Disciplines

  • Education

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