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OverviewMerging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner shows how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to current educational materials, practices, and institutions, and makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author. 0465004407 the Arts and Human Development : with a New Introduction by the Author 0465004458 Art, Mind, and Brain : a Cognitive Approach to Creativity 0465014542 Creating Minds : an Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi 0465025102 Frames of Mind : the Theory of Multiple Intelligences 0465046355 the Mind's New Science : a History of the Cognitive Revolution 0465082807 Leading Minds : an Anatomy of Leadership 046508629 Full Product DetailsAuthor: Howard GardnerPublisher: Basic Books Imprint: Basic Books Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9780465088966ISBN 10: 0465088961 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 02 June 1993 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviews"Chicago Tribune, Editor's Choice ""The idea of multiple intelligences is so much a part of our cultural conversation that it is hard to believe that these ideas are fairly new and that this book was published just two decades ago. This anniversary edition feels fresh and as urgent as it did in its original form."" ""Chicago Tribune"", Editor's Choice ""The idea of multiple intelligences is so much a part of our cultural conversation that it is hard to believe that these ideas are fairly new and that this book was published just two decades ago. This anniversary edition feels fresh and as urgent as it did in its original form.""" A convincing call to reexamine the way children learn in their earliest years, and to make use of those new findings in classrooms. MacArthur fellow Gardner (Education/Harvard; To Open Minds, 1989, etc.) developed a theory that human beings learn and perform through multiple intelligences (seven, to be precise, from verbal to kinesthetic and interpersonal). His own and other studies in these areas revealed that students who may be letter-perfect in a school subject such as physics fail spectacularly in transferring that knowledge from classroom exercises to problems in the real world. Even adults abandon book learning and invoke pictures of the world - including stereotypes about the forces of gravity or about skin color - that they constructed as early as five years old. The emperor is exposed as being not only naked but ignorant. If such early childhood schema, as Piaget called them, are so tenacious, then harness them for learning in the advanced classroom, Gardner advises. He recommends reevaluating the concept of apprenticeships and using the hands-on, multimedia techniques seen in children's museum programs. The developmental theories of Piaget and Chomsky are respectfully challenged, the push to cultural literacy and back to basics less respectfully. At issue is the unexamined idea. Gardner calls for schools and teachers to encourage personal Christopherian confrontations, the encounter between belief and reality that Christopher Columbus presented when he did not sail off the edge of the world. An exciting proposal for restructuring schools in order to guide students to a genuine understanding of the world. A bonus is the extraordinary insight into why children and adults seem to resist learning and why they often behave in such mystifying ways. (Kirkus Reviews) <p> Chicago Tribune , Editor's Choice<br> The idea of multiple intelligences is so much a part of our cultural conversation that it is hard to believe that these ideas are fairly new and that this book was published just two decades ago. This anniversary edition feels fresh and as urgent as it did in its original form. Chicago Tribune , Editor's Choice The idea of multiple intelligences is so much a part of our cultural conversation that it is hard to believe that these ideas are fairly new and that this book was published just two decades ago. This anniversary edition feels fresh and as urgent as it did in its original form. Chicago Tribune, Editor's Choice The idea of multiple intelligences is so much a part of our cultural conversation that it is hard to believe that these ideas are fairly new and that this book was published just two decades ago. This anniversary edition feels fresh and as urgent as it did in its original form. Author InformationHoward Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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