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Headings: Howard Gardner, multiple intelligences and education
Howard Gardner, multiple intelligences and education
Howard Gardner, multiple intelligences and education. Howard Gardner’s work around multiple intelligences has had a profound impact on thinking and practice in education – especially in the United States. Here we explore the theory of multiple intelligences; why it has found a ready audience amongst educationalists; and some of the issues around its conceptualization and realization.
Howard Gardner – a life
Howard Gardner on multiple intelligences – the initial listing
The appeal of multiple intelligences to educators
Are there additional intelligences?
Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences – some issues and problems
Conclusion
Further reading and references
References

Content: Howard Gardner appears to have embraced the opportunities there – and to have elicited the support and interest of some very able teachers. From there he went to Harvard University to study history in readiness for a career in the law. However, he was lucky enough to have Eric Erikson as a tutor. In Howard Gardner’s words Erikson probably ‘sealed’ his ambition to be a scholar (1989: 23). But there were others: My mind was really opened when I went to Harvard College and had the opportunity to study under individuals—such as psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, sociologist David Riesman, and cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner—who were creating knowledge about human beings. That helped set me on the course of investigating human nature, particularly how human beings think. ( Howard Gardner quoted by Marge Sherer 1999)
Howard Gardner’s interest in psychology and the social sciences grew (his senior thesis was on a new California retirement community) and he graduated summa cum laude in 1965. Howard Gardner then went to work for a brief period with Jerome Bruner on the famous MACOS Project (‘Man: