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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; Third Edition edition (March 29, 2011)
This book describes the theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) and was written in 1983 by its developer: Howard Gardner. According to him, there is no such concept as 'intelligence' but many fields in which you can be more or less intelligent. These 'intelligences' are basically seven: linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic and personal. Each of them is developed to a certain degree in all human beings, except in those who are impaired due to an accident or a genetic disease. And these are particularly the cases that Gardner uses to prove his theory, by gathering data of individuals that, for example, in spite of being autistic, show an incredible musical talent or those individuals with meager abilities in most areas but display from early childhood an ability to calculate very rapidly and accurately. Of course that this approach challenges the widely accepted (in the US mostly) IQ scores, because it shows that these tests focus only in one of the multiple intelligences,logical-mathematical in this case, and not all. So, they reach to a wrong conclusion of the individual's potential.
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Howard Gardner's `Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences' is a fascinating book that helps to explain how and why different people seem to learn in different ways and possess different skills and talents. Gardner's main thesis throughout the text is that there is not one thing called intelligence, but rather several different types of intelligence that work together (or, sometimes, play together) inside each person's overall intellectual development and structure. Gardner begins his discussion with an overview of the idea of multiple intelligences. The idea of different kinds of intelligence is hardly new, as Gardner concedes, but that idea having been formed, it is rarely carried forward save by the most innovative of teachers and thinkers. Why does a person, for instance, remember particular teachers from elementary or secondary school days rather clearly, while others not at all? Beyond the subject matter and interest, there is a manner of teacher connecting with the student that taps into dominant and active kinds of intelligence, despite the subject matter at hand. Potential Isolation by Brain Damage This establishes an autonomy of the function of a particular kind of intelligence from others, thus helping demonstrate uniqueness and separation. The Existence of Idiot Savants, Prodigies, etc. That certain kinds of intelligence can be highly developed in some to an extraordinary level also helps demonstrate uniqueness - for instance, rarely is the musical genius likewise a genius in all (or even many) other intellectual areas.Read more ›
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A classic for any school teacher. Gardner broke new ground when he wrote this book, explaining that intelligence is not just about reading and math abilities. A must read for teachers who think outside the box.
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Howard Gardner's idea of multiple intelligences is both ground-breaking and illuminating, and has caused a paradigm shift in both Western psychology and education. However, this book is disjointed and disorganized, and can be at times incoherent and chaotic.
Gardner is not a great writer, and like most academics tends to love his own voice too much, and so this book is much too verbose and long.
I think Gardner's idea would be much stronger and much more relevant if he just focused on showing the reductive and over-simplistic nature of Western society's definition of intelligence. By developing his "multiple intelligence" argument he merely substitutes one reductive and over-simplistic worldview with that of the other.
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While Gardner should be commended for attempting to create a more complex description of human intelligence than the traditional I.Q. measures, his taxonomy is still pretty crude. It is the neurological equivalent of the medieval earth, water, fire and air. He proposes that there are discrete types of intelligence that operate independently of each other; I believe that cognition is a lot messier than that and it is impossible to neatly separate different kinds of thinking.
Musicians, for instance, must perpetually employ "kinesthetic intelligence" as well as "musical intelligence" simply to manipulate their instruments or voices. There is also frequent overlapping between "musical intelligence" and "linguistic intelligence". The great tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins stressed the importance of playing the lyrics, or using the words of a composition to guide the way he played. Certainly for blues, folk and rap performers it is impossible to separate language from music. Conversely, writers use musical elements such as rhythm, repetition and assonance in their work. The same elements are an integral part of spoken language (with the addition of performative vocal musical qualities), as demonstrated by great orators such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Franklin Roosevelt.
There are many other examples of how inextricably bound Gardner's proposed modes of thinking are. Einstein stated that in addition to being able to move numbers around and think abstractly, it was his ability to visualize concepts, to "think in pictures", that enabled him to develop his theories.
On the other hand, Gardner also oversimplifies the enormous complexity that involves each type of intelligence he lists.Read more ›
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