The Development and Education of the Mind The Selected Works of Howard Gardner [Hardcover]

Leading American psychologist and educator Howard Gardner has assembled his most important writings about education. Spanning over thirty years, this collection reveals the thinking, the concepts and the empirical research that have made Gardner one of the most respected and cited educational authorities of our time.

Trained originally as a psychologist at Harvard University, Howard Gardner begins with personal sketches and tributes to his major teachers and mentors. He then presents the work for which he is best-known  the theory of multiple intelligences  including a summary of the original theory and accounts of how it has been updated over the years. Other seminal papers featured include:

• education in the arts
• the nature of understanding
• powerful ways in which to assess learning
• broad statements about the educational enterprise
• how education is likely to evolve in the globalised world of the twenty-first century.

 

 

  1. Influences  2. The Pathbreaking Work of Jean Piaget  3. Jerome S. Bruner as Educator:  Project Zero: Nelson Goodman's Legacy in Arts Education  4. Norman Geschwind  Creative Genius  5. Developmental Psychology after Piaget: An approach in Terms of Symbolization  6. M.I. Theory  7. Beyond the IQ: Education and Human Development  8. Developing the Spectrum of Human Intelligences  9. Reflections on Multiple Intelligences: Myths and Messages  10. Who Owns Intelligence?  11. Multimedia and Multiple  Intelligences 12. The Three Faces of Intelligence  13. M.I. after Twenty Years  14. Arts Education  15. Artistic Intelligences  16. Zero-Based Arts Education: An Introduction to Arts Propel  17. Illuminating Comparisons ili