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Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons

The most complete account of the theory and application of Multiple Intelligences available anywhere.

Howard Gardner's brilliant conception of individual competence, known as Multiple Intelligences theory, has changed the face of education. Tens of thousands of educators, parents, and researchers have explored the practical implications and applications of this powerful notion, that there is not one type of intelligence but several, ranging from musical intelligence to the intelligence involved in self-understanding.

Multiple Intelligences distills nearly three decades of research on Multiple Intelligences theory and practice, covering its central arguments and numerous developments since its introduction in 1983. Gardner includes discussions of global applications, Multiple Intelligences in the workplace, an assessment of Multiple Intelligences practice in the current conservative educational climate, new evidence about brain functioning, and much more.

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

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Howard Gardner

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Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds positions as Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. He has received honorary degrees from 26 colleges and universities, including institutions in Bulgaria, Chile, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, and South Korea. In 2005 and again in 2008, he was selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world. The author of 25 books translated into 28 languages, and several hundred articles, Gardner is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be adequately assessed by standard psychometric instruments.

During the past two decades, Gardner and colleagues at Project Zero have been involved in the design of performance-based assessments; education for understanding; the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and pedagogy; and the quality of interdisciplinary efforts in education. Since the middle 1990s, in collaboration with psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon, Gardner has directed the GoodWork Project-- a study of work that is excellent, engaging, and ethical. More recently, with long time Project Zero colleagues Lynn Barendsen and Wendy Fischman, he has conducted reflection sessions designed to enhance the understanding and incidence of good work among young people. With Carrie James and other colleagues at Project Zero, he is also investigating the nature of trust in contemporary society and ethical dimensions entailed in the use of the new digital media. Among new research undertakings are a study of effective collaboration among non-profit institutions in education and a study of conceptions of quality, nationally and internationally, in the contemporary era. In 2008 he delivered a set of three lectures at New York's Museum of Modern Art on the topic "The True, The Beautiful, and The Good: econsiderations in a post-modern, digital era."

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May 28, 2023
Am început această carte pentru că este o lectură obligatorie în cadrul modulului psihopedagogic pe care îl urmez, dar a ajuns chiar să îmi placă lecturarea volumului.

În ultimele zile m-am simțit puțin pierdută pentru că am realizat că anumite planuri pe care le aveam nu erau realizabile. Pe scurt, mi s-au vândut povești și eu inițial le-am crezut pentru că speram că există o cale mai ușoară. Aici mă refer la termenul de passive income care este intens promovat pe rețelele de socializare. Ca orice student la economie curios m-am apucat să mă informez mai mult despre acest subiect, dar cu cât am citit mai multe cu atât am realizat că sunt amăgeli. În "passive" nu e niciun pasiv, iar ca să construiești așa ceva trebuie să ai mai întâi o audiență, altfel sunt slabe șanse să faci ceva din asta.

Trecând peste, cartea promovează ideea de măiestrie, de a deveni bun la ceva, iar acel ceva să fie bazat pe inteligențele tale. Mi-a plăcut și ideea de procesfoliu în care îți documentezi călătoria ta de la învățăcel la maestru și chiar vreau să încerc, probabil pe Substack.

Volumul m-a ajutat să revin pe drumul cel bun, după ce am fost influențată de ideile unor persoane care doar par că știu mai multă educație financiară. Sunt încântată că am citit cartea și plănuiesc ca următoarele lecturi să fie Inteligența emoțională și Măiestrie.

De asemenea, vreau să lucrez la anumite inteligențe. Am un scor foarte bun la inteligența intrapersonală, logico-matematică și naturalistă, dar sunt jalnică atunci când vine vorba de inteligența interpersonală și lingvistică. Autorul susține că inteligența intrapersonală e necesară pentru a avea succes în carieră și o am, dar sincer cele 2 la care o duc cam prost au constituit mereu un obstacol pentru mine. Așadar, mi-am propus ca obiectiv să lucrez la ele, astfel încât să ajung la un nivel mai "confortabil".
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