Howard Gardener
by: ivania sales
Background info
Howard Gardner is the professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also a Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and the Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero. Gardner has gotten a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981 and the University of Louisville’s Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2000.
Theory of multiple intelligences
Verbal-linguistic: display facility with words and languages. Usually good at writing, telling stories, reading and memorizing dates.
real life examples
Musical-rhythmic: someone who is good at singing and plays instruments.
Visual-spatial: A blind man how can remember where places are in a non-visual way.
Verbal-linguistic: An author is verbally-linguistic because they are good at telling stories.
Logical-mathematical: a math teacher
Bodily-kinesthetic: a soccer player
Interpersonal: someone who is very outgoing
Intrapersonal: someone who is very in touch with themselves and know themselves very well
Naturalistic: A hunter who lives in Alaska because they know the area well and they use ever part of everything they hunted. Nothing goes to waste.