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Howard Gardner
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american developmental psychologist & academic
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Howard Gardner is an American psychologist, university teacher, and pedagogue born in Scranton in 1943. He holds citizenship in the United States and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His professional work focuses on developmental psychology, and he has been influenced by Jean Piaget. Gardner is particularly noted for his theory of multiple intelligences.
He has been educated at Harvard College and Harvard University. His career includes teaching positions at Harvard University, New York University, and Boston University. Gardner speaks and writes in English. He has received several awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellows Program award, the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, and Grawemeyer Awards.
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- human
- Given name
- Howard
- Family name
- Gardner
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Scranton
- Employer
- Boston University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Grawemeyer Awards
- Notable work
- theory of multiple intelligences
- Field of work
- developmental psychology
- Official website
- howardgardner.com
- Image
- Howard Gardner.jpg
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- Howard Gardner
- date of birth
- 1943-07-11
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- Jean Piaget
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Encyclopedic overview
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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