Howard Gardner Biography
About Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner born on July 11 in 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.He is an American developmental psychologist.At the same time,he is the professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University..He is the son of Ralph Gardner and Hilde Weilheimer.At 1995, he has been the co-director of the GoodWork Project since Hilde Gardner married to Ralph Gardner. He is the Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero.Howard Gardener author of over twenty books in thirty languages.He is well known for his theory of multiple intelligences.He owned the Prince of Asturias Award 2011 in Social Sciences for the development of this theory.
Multiple inteliigence
Gardner's Theory of multiple intelligences states …show more content…
His theory of multiple intelligences has not been readily accepted within academic psychology but has been highly influential in education. Traditionally, schools have focused on the development of logical and linguistic intelligences. These intelligences are also focused on through standardIntelligence Quotient, aka the IQ Test. According to Gardner, these standardized tests that are used in the current American education system do not measure all of his multiple intelligences, which vary from person to person and thus determine the ways in which each person learns most effectively. Gardner's theory argues that students will be better served by a broader vision of education, wherein teachers use different methodologies, exercises and activities to reach all students, not just those who excel at linguistic and logical …show more content…
Since the middle 1990s, in collaboration with psychologist Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon, Gardner has directed the GoodWork Project-- a study of work that is excellent, engaging, and ethical. More recently, with long time Project Zero colleagues Lynn Barendsen and Wendy Fischman, he has conducted reflection sessions designed to enhance the understanding and incidence of good work among young people. With Carrie James and other colleagues at Project Zero, he is also investigating the nature of trust in contemporary society and ethical dimensions entailed in the use of the new digital media. Among new research undertakings are a study of effective collaboration among non-profit institutions in education and a study of conceptions of quality, nationally and internationally, in the contemporary era. In 2008 he delivered a set of three lectures at New York's Museum of Modern Art on the topic
"The True, The Beautiful, and The Good: Reconsiderations in a post-modern, digital era,"from which he drew upon to write the recently published Truth, Beauty and Goodness
Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-First Century. |
Howard Gardner born on July 11 in 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.He is an American developmental psychologist.At the same time,he is the professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University..He is the son of Ralph Gardner and Hilde Weilheimer.At 1995, he has been the co-director of the GoodWork Project since Hilde Gardner married to Ralph Gardner. He is the Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero.Howard Gardener author of over twenty books in thirty languages.He is well known for his theory of multiple intelligences.He owned the Prince of Asturias Award 2011 in Social Sciences for the development of this theory.
Multiple inteliigence
Gardner's Theory of multiple intelligences states …show more content…
His theory of multiple intelligences has not been readily accepted within academic psychology but has been highly influential in education. Traditionally, schools have focused on the development of logical and linguistic intelligences. These intelligences are also focused on through standardIntelligence Quotient, aka the IQ Test. According to Gardner, these standardized tests that are used in the current American education system do not measure all of his multiple intelligences, which vary from person to person and thus determine the ways in which each person learns most effectively. Gardner's theory argues that students will be better served by a broader vision of education, wherein teachers use different methodologies, exercises and activities to reach all students, not just those who excel at linguistic and logical …show more content…
Since the middle 1990s, in collaboration with psychologist Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon, Gardner has directed the GoodWork Project-- a study of work that is excellent, engaging, and ethical. More recently, with long time Project Zero colleagues Lynn Barendsen and Wendy Fischman, he has conducted reflection sessions designed to enhance the understanding and incidence of good work among young people. With Carrie James and other colleagues at Project Zero, he is also investigating the nature of trust in contemporary society and ethical dimensions entailed in the use of the new digital media. Among new research undertakings are a study of effective collaboration among non-profit institutions in education and a study of conceptions of quality, nationally and internationally, in the contemporary era. In 2008 he delivered a set of three lectures at New York's Museum of Modern Art on the topic
"The True, The Beautiful, and The Good: Reconsiderations in a post-modern, digital era,"from which he drew upon to write the recently published Truth, Beauty and Goodness
Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-First Century. |