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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.
- Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: Basic Books; 10th edition (April 21, 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0465025102
- ISBN-13: 978-0465025107
- Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Average Customer Review: 70 customer reviews
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