Educational Psychology / Unit 8 EDP 0712 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
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The idea
Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, from Frames of Mind, names eight: linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal and naturalistic.
In practice
A dancer excels in bodily-kinesthetic intelligence; a counselor, in interpersonal; a naturalist sorting plant species, in naturalistic.
Where people slip
Gardner proposed a ninth, existential intelligence, without strong support; Sternberg names three, Gardner eight.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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