Essential Howard Gardner on Education

Howard Gardner is the Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among his numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, the Grawemeyer Prize in Education, a fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Prince of Asturias Award in the Social Sciences, and the American Educational Research Association's Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award.

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• Acknowledgments Introduction Influences1. Jerome S. Bruner as Educator2. Harvard Project Zero: A Personal History3. The Hundred Languages of Successful Educational Reform China: The Key in the Key Slot4. The Key in the Key Slot: Creativity in a Chinese Key 5. The Age of Innocence Reconsidered: Preserving the Best of the Progressive Traditions in Psychology and Education 6. Educating for the True, the Beautiful, and the Good 7. The Tensions Between Education and Development Introducing Multiple Intelligences: Claims, Critiques, and Educational ImplicationsOverview of MI Theory 8. Beyond IQ: Developing the Spectrum of Human Intelligences 9. Reflections on MI Myths and Messages 10. “Multiple Intelligences” Are Not “Learning Styles” 11. The Crystallizing Experience: Discovering an Intellectual Gift Educational Experiments in the Spirit of Multiple Intelligences12. MI Around the World Identification and Nurturing of Intelligences in Early Life13. The Spectrum Approach to Assessment: Nurturing Intelligences in Early Childhood 14. Projects During the Elementary Years 15. Arts PROPEL Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Assessment16. The Unschooled Mind: Why Even the Best Students in the Best Schools May Not Understand 17. Understanding Through the Disciplines 18. Teaching for Understanding Within and Across the Disciplines 19. Assessment in Context: The Alternative to Standardized Testing Higher Education20. If We Were Designing a New College . . . 21. Why We Should Require All Students to Take Two Philosophy Courses Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities22. Education in the Era of the Apps 23. The Five Minds for the Future24. Synthesis 1.0: A Few Essential Tips 25. Changing Minds 26. On Educating for the Three Virtues: A Hegelian Approach 27. The Myths in “Neuromyths”28. Becoming a Good Person, a Good Worker, a Good Citizen in a Democratic Society 29. To an Aspiring Researcher: Twelve Pieces of Advice Original Publication List Index Permissions About the Author