Howard Gardner (* 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the USA) is a professor for educating sciences to the Harvard Graduate School OF Education, extraordinary professor for psychology to the Harvard University and extraordinary professor for neurology to the Boston University School OF Medicine. It is successful also as an author of several popular-scientific books.

Scientific work

Gardner is with its disputed theory of the multiple Intelligenzen admits become. This theory criticizes the view, it would give only one intelligence, which could be measured with psychometrischen standard instruments.

Biography

Gardners parents Ralph and Hilde Gardner fled as Jews 1938 before the Nazis from Nuremberg with her son Eric. Briefly before Howard Gardners birth died his brother in a carriage accident. Both escape and death of the brother were never addressed in Gardners childhood, had however according to his own statement large influence on his development and his thinking.

Works

• Frames OF at least The Theory OF multiple Intelligences. ISBN 0465025102

Works in German translation

• Thinking on the trace. To the cognitive science. 1989 ISBN 3-608-93099-X (review)
• Parting from the I.Q. - The framework theory of the multiples Intelligenzen. 1991 ISBN 3-608-93158-9 (review)
• The untrained head. As children think. 1993 ISBN 3-608-95889-4 (review)
• Intelligenzen. The variety of the human spirit. 2002 ISBN 3-608-94263-7 (review)

Related links

• Gardners official homepage
• Gardners private homepage
• Gardners theory of the multiple Intelligenzen (English)

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