From the Manila Standard: The April 12 agreement, which will seek to instill among school children the positive Filipino values of pagkamasinop, pagkamatipid, pag-iimpok, and pagkakaisa, will put on stream two components of the project. The first is to develop for the elementary schoolteachers teaching guides that will inform them about basic financial and economic concepts relating to savings. The…
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The author of multiple intelligence theory talks to Liz Ford about his latest work - on good bosses For a professor who has resided in one of American's most ivory of towers for more than 40 years, the psychologist Howard Gardner is surprisingly down to earth. When asked about his latest theories on the mind, the man who was…
The American Chronicle - Human Intelligence: Going Beyond Mere IQ The ability to excel at a variety of tasks, with a particular emphasis on academic success, is intelligence. A more detailed definition emphasizes that intelligence is the mental capacity to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. In psychology, the study of intelligence is generally…
Dubai Women's College hosted a workshop titled 'Multiple Intelligence thinking and its uses in the language classroom' presented by world-renowned speaker Mario Rinvolucri. http://www.ameinfo.com/104023.html
Thanks to Julie Atkins for pointing this out.. Professor Howard Gardner is at it again, never ceasing to create innovative approaches to traditional conceptions of thinking and learning. His groundbreaking theory of multiple intelligences spawned a re-evaluation of school curricula, highlighting the importance of including the arts and culture in mainstream learning. Recently, at the annual conference of the National…
FIVE MINDS FOR THE FUTURE in April 2007 Follow up to bestseller Changing Minds focuses on five "minds" that must be cultivated to achieve success in the future BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harvard Business School Press (HBS Press) is proud to announce a new book by influential Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, to be published in April 2007. FIVE MINDS FOR THE FUTURE outlines…
From the Financial Times [USA] "The empires of the future will be the empires of the mind," Winston Churchill once said. Perhaps it is not surprising to see Howard Gardner quoting him approvingly. Professor Gardner holds the chair in cognition and education at the Harvard graduate school of education and has been a prominent analyst of the human mind for…
Like other aspects of modern life, schools must change By Kalei Ching--Matter of Opinion It is a matter of fact that people find comfort in the familiar. We remember with fondness the home-cooked meals that we grew up eating and staunchly insist on keeping old traditions alive. We even eat the same breakfast day in and day out and feel…
We live in an age of anxiety. People everywhere fear the next terrorist attack. Meanwhile, we slowly grow numb to Iraq