Title: Howard Gardner | Biography, Theory, Multiple Intelligences, Psychology, & Facts | Britannica
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Howard Gardner
American psychologist
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The theory of multiple intelligences affected many school-improvement efforts in the United States. Gardner and others promoted efforts to understand diverse student capacities and emphasized the need for personalized educational environments, improved interdisciplinary curricular programs, and the use of performance-based assessments. Other works by Gardner included The Mind’s New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution (1985) and Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the 21st Century (2011). Lynn Melby Gordon The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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…that of the American psychologist Howard Gardner and that of Sternberg. In 1983 Gardner challenged the assumption of a single intelligence by proposing a theory of “multiple intelligences.”