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...children in Mitchell's class are among the newest initiates of the philosophy that is probably exciting more educators than any other right now. Like many schools around the country, Coyote Creek has based its instruction on Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, or MI. Gardner, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, first proposed the theory in his book Frames of Mind, which was published in 1983. Since then, Gardner's ideas have received widespread attention and acceptance among parents and have been eagerly embraced by teachers. "Multiple intelligences is clearly the biggest thing right...
...increasing use of MI in schools raises a very simple question: Is this a good thing? The answer is not so simple, but there are good reasons to have doubts about this trend. To be sure, cognitive psychologists and educational researchers tend to give Gardner high praise for helping the public understand that intelligence is multifaceted, and MI has undoubtedly helped teachers understand and value the various talents a child has. Nevertheless, evidence for the specifics of Gardner theory is weak, and there is no firm research showing that its practical applications have been effective. No one says that using...
Sitting in his spare office at Harvard on a recent morning, a small dugout canoe made by his son resting on a nearby table, Howard Gardner talked about his work and the use others have made of it. A slender man with a soft face and hair flopping over his forehead, Gardner looks a bit like the concert pianist he might have been if he had pursued that career. After a long discussion of the merits of his theory, he tried to sum up his views. "Here's a credo I've never stated before," he said. "I'm sure...
Expressed at this level of generality, Gardner's theory is one with which few people could disagree. But the purpose of Frames of Mind was to identify seven specific "intelligences," and that list forms the basis of all the educational applications of MI. Gardner argued against the view of intelligence as a single faculty that is accurately measured by an IQ test. Rather, he said, we have several separate intellectual capacities, each of which deserves to be called an intelligence. The seven intelligences are linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal (the ability to understand others) and intrapersonal...
Take a break from all of the boring Warren Court reading and spend a few hours at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The collection in this museum is not allowed to be changed, according to the stipulations of Isabella Stewart Gardner's will. But, strangely enough, it is now featuring, for a limited time only, an exhibition of the photography of resident artist Abelardo Morell. "Face to Face" is a collection of photographs of the works in the museum which Morell has juxtaposed and compressed with wide-angle lenses to give the collection a whole new side. Take that, Isabella...