Multiple Intelligences

Requirements

25 points

1. Read, “Howard Gardner’s Information Sheet” included in this assignment.
2. Take and Score the Multiple Intelligences (MI) Test
   1. You do not need to include the answers to your test with your submission.
3. Use the following guidelines to write a summary of the results. Page length: two pages maximum.

If your score indicates you have a ‘strong ability’ in any of the seven categories, do you agree with Howard Gardner’s Theory and his Details of each Type as described in the information sheet? If you did not score a ‘strong ability’ in a category, do you believe you should have?

Why/Why not? (7 points) Include information you learned from the information sheet (10 points) in your statement(s). Be specific/give examples.

Do you agree/disagree with your results in any of the other categories?

Why/Why not? (3 points) Include information you learned from the information sheet (5 points) in your statement(s). Be specific/give examples.

READING

howard gardner’s multiple intelligences

multiple intelligences theory

Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory was first published in Howard Gardner’s book, Frames Of Mind (1983), and quickly became established as a classical model by which to understand and teach many aspects of human intelligence, learning style, personality and behaviour – in education and industry. Howard Gardner initially developed his ideas and theory on multiple intelligences as a contribution to psychology, however Gardner’s theory was soon embraced by education, teaching and training communities, for whom the appeal was immediate and irresistible – a sure sign that Gardner had created a classic reference work and learning model.

Howard Gardner was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania USA in 1943 to German Jewish immigrant parents, and entered Harvard in 1961, where, after Gardner’s shift from history into social relations (which included psychology, sociology, and anthropology) he met his early mentor Erik Erikson. Later Gardner was also influenced by psychologists Jeane Piaget, Jerome Bruner, and philosopher Nelson Goodman, with whom Gardner co-founded ‘Project Zero’ in 1967 (focusing on studies of artistic thought and creativity). Project Zero’s 1970’s ‘Project on Human Potential’, whose heady aim was to address ‘the state of scientific knowledge concerning human potential and its realization’, seems to have been the platform from which Gardner’s multiple intelligences ideas grew, and were subsequently published in Gardner’s Frames Of Mind 1983 book. A wonderful example of ‘thinking big’ if ever there was one.

At time I write this summary (Apr 2005) Howard Gardner is the John H and Elisabeth A Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; he serves as adjunct Professor at Harvard University, Boston University School of Medicine, and remains senior director of Harvard Project Zero. Gardner has received honorary degrees from at least twenty foreign institutions, and has written over twenty highly regarded books on the human mind, learning and behaviour. How ironic then that Gardner, who has contributed so much to the understanding of people and behaviour, was born (according to his brief auto-biographical paper ‘One Way To Make Social Scientist’, 2003), cross-eyed, myopic, colour-blind and unable to recognise faces. There’s hope for us all.

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