Howard Earl Gardner (Born July 11, 1943) Is An American
Howard Earl Gardner (Born July 11, 1943) Is An American
Howard Earl Gardner (Born July 11, 1943) Is An American
the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard
Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero
and author of over twenty books translated into thirty languages. Since 1995, he has been the codirector of the GoodWork Project. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, as
outlined in his book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (1983). He received
the Prince of Asturias Award 2011 in Social Sciences for the development of this theory.[2]
Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences states not only do human beings have several different
ways of learning and processing information, but these methods are relatively independent of one
another: leading to multiple "intelligences" as opposed to a general intelligence factor among
correlated abilities."If we synthesise information from several disciplines, ranging from
anthropology to brain study, it emerges that human beings are better described as having several
relatively independent information processing capacities, which I call the multiple
intelligences,Gardner said in an interview with Asia's leading Education magazine Education
Insider.[3] Since 1999, Gardner has identified eight intelligences: linguistic, logic-mathematical,
musical, spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic. Gardner is still
considering a ninth, existential intelligence (the posing and pondering of "big questions"), but
has not yet added it.