During the 1980s, I was teaching in Philadelphia’s Quaker school system. Highly regarded for their progressive approach to learning, Friends schools were on the cutting edge of educational reform in ...

The education world gets obsessed sometimes with trying to come up with ways to measure smarts. But today we’re talking with someone who has a history of shaking up the narrative when it comes to ...

This story was originally published on December 11, 2000. Author Howard Gardner is the father of "multiple intelligences" theory. The Hobbs professor of cognition and education at the Harvard Graduate ...

The theory of multiple intelligences proposed by Howard Gardner, a professor of cognition and education at Harvard University, has gotten a lot of buzz in education circles during the past 20 years, ...

One of the most appealing ideas in psychology is the theory that several distinct kinds of intelligence exist and that we are ...

The theory of multiple intelligences, which turns 20 this year, remains popular even as skeptics question author Howard Gardner's claims. In 1983, when Howard Gardner published Frames of Mind, the ...

Howard Gardner's brilliant conception of individual competence has changed the face of education in the twenty-three years since the publication of his classic work, Frames of Mind. Since then ...

According to Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, humans have several different ways of processing information, such as spatial, interpersonal and logical-mathematical -- and these ways ...

Many people find the idea that there are many different types of intelligence very appealing. Howard Gardner disparages IQ tests as having limited relevance to real life and argued that there may be ...

Decades ago, I was thrilled to chat with renowned psychologist Howard Gardner, who conceived the concept of multiple intelligences. He posits that everyone has not just a single general ability but ...