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May 9, 2018 · In the late 1970s and early ’80s, after he had worked with brain-damaged hospital patients and healthy schoolchildren, Howard Gardner developed a theory that changed the way people study intelligence and transformed the fields of psychology and education.
Sep 26, 2018 · September 26th 2018. Every issue, Dr Pedro De Bruyckere takes aim at a common educational theory and summarises the evidence for and against it. This time, it’s Gardner’s multiple intelligences in the hot seat.
Oct 17, 2013 · One of an occasional story in which Harvard faculty members recount their early influences, Howard Gardner recalls the mentors who helped to shape his early academic career.
- Harvardgazette
- Howard Gardner – A Life
- Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences – The Initial Listing
- The Appeal of Multiple Intelligences to Educators
- Are There Additional Intelligences?
- Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences – Some Issues and Problems
- Conclusion
- Further Reading and References
- References
Howard Gardner was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1943. His parents had fled from Nürnberg in Germany in 1938 with their three-year old son, Eric. Just prior to Howard Gardner’s birth Eric was killed in a sleighing accident. These two events were not discussed during Gardner’s childhood, but were to have a very significant impact upon his thinki...
Howard Gardner viewed intelligence as ‘the capacity to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural setting’ (Gardner & Hatch, 1989). He reviewed the literature using eight criteria or ‘signs’ of an intelligence: Candidates for the title ‘an intelligence’ had to satisfy a range of these criteria and must include, as...
Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences has not been readily accepted within academic psychology. However, it has met with a strongly positive response from many educators. It has been embraced by a range of educational theorists and, significantly, applied by teachers and policymakers to the problems of schooling. A number of schools in ...
Since Howard Gardner’s original listing of the intelligences in Frames of Mind (1983) there has been a great deal of discussion as to other possible candidates for inclusion (or candidates for exclusion). Subsequent research and reflection by Howard Gardner and his colleagues has looked to three particular possibilities: a naturalist intelligence, ...
There are various criticisms of, and problems around, Howard Gardner’s conceptualization of multiple intelligences. Indeed, Gardner himself has listed some of the main issues and his responses (1993: xxiii-xxvii; 1999: 79-114). Here, I want to focus on three key questions that have been raised in debates. (There are plenty of other questions around...
While there may be some significant questions and issues around Howard Gardner’s notion of multiple intelligences, it still has had utility in education. It has helped a significant number of educators to question their work and to encourage them to look beyond the narrow confines of the dominant discourses of skilling, curriculum, and testing. For...
The main Howard Gardner writings on multiple intelligences are as follows: Gardner, Howard (1983; 1993) Frames of Mind: The theory of multiple intelligences, New York: Basic Books. The second edition was published in Britain by Fontana Press. 466 + xxix pages. (All references in this article refer to this second, 10th Anniversary, edition). A major...
Brualdi, A, C. (1996) ‘Multiple Intelligences: Gardner’s Theory. ERIC Digest’, Eric Digests, [http://www.ericdigests.org/1998-1/multiple.htm. Accessed June 15, 2008] Bruner, J (1960) The Process of Education, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Gardner, Howard (1975) The Shattered Mind, New York: Knopf. Gardner, Howard (2006) Changing Minds...
With his best-known work, Howard Gardner shifted the paradigm and ushered in an era of personalized learning. The notion of multiple intelligences — and Gardner’s follow-up ideas about teaching individual students in the ways they can best learn, and teaching important concepts in multiple ways, for many access points — shifted the ...
Nov 7, 2023 · His 1983 book Frames of Mind, outlined his theory and eight major types of intelligence. Gardner's theory had a particular impact in the field of education, where it inspired teachers and educators to explore new ways of teaching aimed at these different intelligences.
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I advocate teaching those disciplines—history, science, the arts, and literature—that will present to students their culture's image of what is true (and not true), beautiful (and not beautiful), ethical (and immoral).
