At Longfellow Hall, HGSE’s Howard Gardner talks about his latest book, ‘Five Minds for the Future,’ in which he outlines the ways of thinking most needed in a changing and challenging world. Staff photo Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office |
Howard Gardner's 'quintet of minds'Psychologist’s latest work is more than just descriptiveMay 9, 2007By Corydon Ireland
It’s been more than 20 years since Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner offered up a radical idea: that humans possess multiple forms of intelligence rather than just a single type that is easily tested by linguistic and logical-mathematical parameters. His groundbreaking “Frames of Mind” (1983) changed traditional psychological views of intelligence, and helped educators question conventional teaching and testing. In a new book this year, Gardner — the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) — goes beyond describing cognition. He ventures into prescription. |
