Giftedness, Overexcitabilities, and Applications in Honors Education

Studies in gifted education demonstrate correlations between Dabrowski’s overexcitabilities (OE) and giftedness. This roundtable will introduce the five OEs (psychomotor, sensual, imaginational, intellectual, and emotional), review key studies on giftedness and OE, and open the floor for discussion of contemporary applications of OE theory in honors education.