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Also known as Howard Earl Gardner

american developmental psychologist & academic

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Howard Gardner is an American developmental psychologist who created the theory of multiple intelligences, proposing that intelligence is not a single ability but rather a collection of distinct mental skills. His work matters because it has influenced how educators think about teaching and learning, suggesting that people have different strengths and ways of understanding the world beyond traditional measures like IQ tests.

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Born
1943
Works
109

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  • Adevărul, frumosul şi binele
  • Der ungeschulte Kopf
  • De mange intelligensers pædagogik
  • La Inteligencia Reformulada Las Inteligencias Multiples en el Siglo Xxi
  • 未受学科训练的心智

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Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1956

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Total plays
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  • I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place.
  • The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual, and thus to feel justified in teaching them the same subjects in the same ways.
  • If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.
  • Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal.
  • Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
  • There is very little dispute about the principal constituent elements of music, though experts will differ on the precise definitions of each aspect. Most central are 'pitch' (or melody) and 'rhythm'... next in importance only to pitch and rhythm is 'timbre', the characteristic qualities of tone.

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Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943) is an American developmental psychologist and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University. He was a founding member of Harvard Project Zero in 1967 and held leadership roles at that research center from 1972 to 2023. Since 1995, he has been the co-director of The Good Project.

Gardner has written hundreds of research articles and over thirty books that have been translated into over thirty languages. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, as outlined in his 1983 book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences.

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