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Why Should there be Multiple Intelligences?
From Howard Gardner himself in Intelligence Reframed (1999): I considered using the venerable scholarly term human faculties; psychologist's terms like skills or capacities; or lay terms like gifts, talents, or abilities. I finally elected to take the bold step of appropriating a word from psychology and stretching it in new ways- that word, of course was intelligence. |
Nearly two decades [after 1984's Frames of Mind]... I now conceptualize an intelligence as a biopsychological potential to process information that can be activated in a cultural setting to solve problems or create products that are of value in a culture.
Myth 5
MI Theory is incompatible with g (the term used by psychometricians to designate the existence of general intelligence)
Reality 5
MI Theory questions not the existence but the province and explanatory power of g.
excerpts taken from (Gardner, 1999) p. 33-34 and 87.
Myth 5
MI Theory is incompatible with g (the term used by psychometricians to designate the existence of general intelligence)
Reality 5
MI Theory questions not the existence but the province and explanatory power of g.
excerpts taken from (Gardner, 1999) p. 33-34 and 87.
Adding Other Voices to the Conversation
Thomas Armstrong Ph.D: PROWhat if Gardner had originally decided to present his ideas about multiple intelligences in the form of a song? Would anybody have listened?
...There seems to be a basic contradiction when it comes to the actual practice of the theory of multiple intelligences. On the one hand, we say that students should be able to learn and be taught in many different intelligences. On the other hand, when we look at what our culture actually does, what it values most, what it spends most of its time focusing on, we find linguistic intelligence far ahead of the pack. Taken from The Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing- Introduction (Armstrong, 2003). |
Scott McGreal MSc. :
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