HOWARD GARDNER:
Background:
Dr. Howard Gardner was the co-director of Project Zero at the Harvard University School of Education and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine. He is the author of over one dozen books. His concept of "multiple intelligences" is a powerful and compelling idea with profound implications for education. This concept has changed the way we see individual competence. His seminal work, Frames of Mind, discusses the concept of multiple intelligences.
Basic Principles of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences:
• Human beings have many different ways of representing meaning; many different kinds of "intelligence," with one being no more important or valuable than another.
• The various human intelligences identified through research are:
1. linguistic
2. logical-mathematical
3. spatial
4. musical
5. bodily-kinesthetic
6. interpersonal
7. intrapersonal
8. naturalist
• We all have some of each intelligence; no two people (not even identical twins) have the same profile of intelligences.
• Schools generally have focused "almost exclusively" on the language and the logic. These areas are easily assessed through testing procedures, and thus, quantifiable.
• Schools have generally ignored other forms of mental representation: artistic forms (musical), athletic (bodily), personal (knowledge of others and self), knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of "big questions."
• All of these "frames of mind" are there in our children to be mobilized; if they are not, one could call school education, "half-brained."
Garner and PE:
The work of Howard Gardner is a case for Art, Music, PE, and all other areas of learning that a school can offer!!! Every child is different and brain development is different. Through many diverse experiences and opportunities, children are given an enhanced education, creating a “whole person.”
When you hear a sportscaster describe an athlete as a “genius,” we are indirectly seeing Howard Gardner's influence in action!
Background:
Dr. Howard Gardner was the co-director of Project Zero at the Harvard University School of Education and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine. He is the author of over one dozen books. His concept of "multiple intelligences" is a powerful and compelling idea with profound implications for education. This concept has changed the way we see individual competence. His seminal work, Frames of Mind, discusses the concept of multiple intelligences.
Basic Principles of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences:
• Human beings have many different ways of representing meaning; many different kinds of "intelligence," with one being no more important or valuable than another.
• The various human intelligences identified through research are:
1. linguistic
2. logical-mathematical
3. spatial
4. musical
5. bodily-kinesthetic
6. interpersonal
7. intrapersonal
8. naturalist
• We all have some of each intelligence; no two people (not even identical twins) have the same profile of intelligences.
• Schools generally have focused "almost exclusively" on the language and the logic. These areas are easily assessed through testing procedures, and thus, quantifiable.
• Schools have generally ignored other forms of mental representation: artistic forms (musical), athletic (bodily), personal (knowledge of others and self), knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of "big questions."
• All of these "frames of mind" are there in our children to be mobilized; if they are not, one could call school education, "half-brained."
Garner and PE:
The work of Howard Gardner is a case for Art, Music, PE, and all other areas of learning that a school can offer!!! Every child is different and brain development is different. Through many diverse experiences and opportunities, children are given an enhanced education, creating a “whole person.”
When you hear a sportscaster describe an athlete as a “genius,” we are indirectly seeing Howard Gardner's influence in action!