Multiple Intelligences

1. Multiple Intelligences Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences 6.02-Gardner

2. Howard Gardner • According to Gardner, this theory is an account of human cognition in its fullness. The intelligences provide a new definition of human nature, cognitively speaking. Human beings are organisms who possess a basic set of intelligences. • People have a unique blend of intelligences. The biggest challenge is how to use the blend of intelligences. 6.02-Gardner

3. Eight Multiple Intelligences • Verbal linguistic • Logical-mathematical • Spatial • Musical rhythmic • Bodily-kinesthetic • Interpersonal • Intrapersonal • Naturalist 6.02-Gardner

4. Linguistic intelligence • Sensitivity to spoken and written language • The ability to learn languages • The capacity to use language to accomplish certain goals • Ability to use language as a means to remember information • Writers, poets, lawyers and speakers are among those that Howard Gardner sees as having high linguistic intelligence. 6.02-Gardner

5. Logical-mathematical intelligence • The capacity to analyze problems logically • Carry out mathematical operations • Investigate issues scientifically • Ability to detect patterns • Ability to reason deductively and think logically • This intelligence is most often associated with scientific and mathematical thinking 6.02-Gardner

6. Spatial intelligence • Involves the driving force to recognize and use the patterns or shapes in open space and also in confined areas 6.02-Gardner

7. Musical intelligence • Skill in the performance, composition, and appreciation of musical patterns • The capacity to recognize and compose musical pitches, tones, and rhythms • According to Howard Gardner musical intelligence runs in an almost structural parallel to linguistic intelligence. 6.02-Gardner

8. Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence • The potential of using one's whole body or parts of the body to solve problems • Ability to use mental abilities to coordinate bodily movements • Howard Gardner sees mental and physical activity as related. 6.02-Gardner

9. Interpersonal intelligence • Capacity to understand the intentions, motivations and desires of other people • To work effectively with others • Educators, salespeople, religious and political leaders, and counselors all need a well-developed interpersonal intelligence. 6.02-Gardner

10. Intrapersonal intelligence • Entails the capacity to understand oneself, to appreciate one's feelings, fears and motivations • In Howard Gardner's view, it involves having an effective working model of ourselves, and to be able to use such information to regulate our lives. 6.02-Gardner

11. Naturalist intelligence • The capacity to make consequential distinctions in nature—between one plant and another, among animals, clouds, mountains, and the like. • Scientist Charles Darwin had naturalist intelligence in abundance. • Most of us no longer use our naturalist intelligence to survive in the jungle or the forest. • It is likely that our entire consumer culture is based on our naturalist capacity to differentiate one car make from another, one sneaker from another, and the like. 6.02-Gardner

12. Gardner claimed that the eight intelligences rarely operate independently. • They are used at the same time and tend to complement each other as people develop skills or solve problems. 6.02-Gardner

13. These intelligences, according to Howard Gardner, are amoral (not doing the right thing) • They can be put to constructive or destructive use. • Eight kinds of intelligence would allow eight ways to teach, rather than one. • This would allow children more ways to learn and express themselves. 6.02-Gardner

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15. Review List the eight intelligences and give an example of each. 6.02-Gardner