Title: What Are Multiple Intelligences and How Do They Affect Learning? | Cornerstone University
Headings: 
HOWARD GARDNER’S THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE
THE 9 MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES AND LEARNING STYLES
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES IN THE CLASSROOM
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: NEW HORIZONS
HOW DO WE BENEFIT FROM UNDERSTANDING MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES?
IDENTIFY THE INTELLIGENCES IN YOUR CLASSROOM

Content: Each person possesses each intelligence to an extent, but there is always a primary, or more dominant, intelligence. The work on multiple intelligences began in the early 1980s with Howard Gardner, and the research continues. HOWARD GARDNER’S THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE
Howard Gardner of Harvard University originally identified seven distinct intelligences. According to Gardner, this theory, which emerged from cognitive research, “documents the extent to which students possess different kinds of minds and therefore learn, remember, perform, and understand in different ways.” In greater detail, the theory proposes that “we are all able to know the world through language, logical-mathematical analysis, spatial representation, musical thinking, the use of the body to solve problems or to make things, an understanding of other individuals and an understanding of ourselves. Where individuals differ is in the strength of these intelligences and the ways in which such intelligences are invoked and combined to carry out different tasks, solve diverse problems and progress in various domains.” Hani Morgan (2014) supports Gardner’s theory. Morgan’s research indicated that differentiated instruction benefits all students, but must be presented by well-prepared, experienced and knowledgeable teachers. This diversity, according to Gardner, should impact the way people are educated. He stated that these differences “challenge an educational system that assumes that everyone can learn the same materials in the same way and that a uniform, universal measure suffices to test student learning.”