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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.
Contents: introduction · howard gardner – a life · howard gardner on multiple intelligences · the appeal of multiple intelligences · are there additional intelligences? · howard gardner’s multiple intelligences – some issues and
problems · conclusion · further reading and references · how to cite this article
I want my
children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating
and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will
be positioned to make it a better place. Knowledge is not the same as morality,
but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in
productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we
are and what we can do… Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for
ourselves. The performance of understanding that try matters are the ones we
carry out as human beings in an imperfect world which we can affect for good or
for ill. (Howard Gardner 1999: 180-181).
Howard
Earl Gardner’s (1943- )
work has been marked by a desire not to just describe the world but to help to
create the conditions to change it. The scale of Howard Gardner’s contribution
can be gauged from following comments in his introduction to the tenth
anniversary edition of his classic work Frames of Mind.
The theory of
multiple intelligences:
In the heyday of the psychometric
and behaviorist eras, it was generally believed that intelligence was a single
entity that was inherited; and that human beings – initially a blank slate –
could be trained to learn anything, provided that it was presented in an
appropriate way. Nowadays an increasing number of researchers believe precisely
the opposite; that there exists a multitude of intelligences, quite independent
of each other; that each intelligence has its own strengths and constraints;
that the mind is far from unencumbered at birth; and that it is unexpectedly
difficult to teach things that go against early ‘naive’ theories of that challenge
the natural lines of force within an intelligence and its matching domains.
(Gardner 1993: xxiii)
One of the main impetuses for this
movement has been Howard Gardner’s work. He has been, in Smith and Smith’s
(1994) terms, a paradigm shifter. Howard Gardner has questioned the idea that
intelligence is a single entity, that it results from a single factor, and that
it can be measured simply via IQ tests. He has also challenged the cognitive
development work of Piaget. Bringing forward evidence to show that at any one
time a child may be at very different stages for example, in number development
and spatial/visual maturation, Howard Gardner has successfully undermined the
idea that knowledge at any one particular developmental stage hangs together in
a structured whole.
In this article we explore Howard
Gardner’s contribution and the use to which it has been put by educators.
Howard
Gardner – a life
Howard Gardner was born in Scranton,
Pennsylvania in 1943. His parents had fled from Nürnberg in Germany in 1938
with their three-year old son, Eric. Just prior to Howard Gardner’s birth Eric
was killed in a sleighing accident. These two events were not discussed during
Gardner’s childhood, but were to have a very significant impact upon his
thinking and development (Gardner 1989: 22). The opportunities for risky
physical activity were limited, and creative and intellectual pursuits
encouraged. As Howard began to discover the family’s ‘secret history’ (and
Jewish identity) he started to recognize that he was different both from his
parents and from his peers.
His parents wanted to send Howard to
Phillips Academy in Andover Massachusetts – but he refused. Instead he went to
a nearby preparatory school in Kingston, Pennsylvania (Wyoming Seminary).
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:
A course of study’). Bruner’s work, especially in The Process of Education (1960)
was to make a profound impact, and the questions that the programme asked were
to find an echo in Gardner’s subsequent interests. During this time he began to
read the work of Claude Levi-Strauss and Jean Piaget in more detail. He entered
Harvard’s doctoral programme in 1966, and in the following year became part of
the Project Zero research team on arts education (with which he has remained
involved to the present). Howard Gardner completed his PhD in 1971 (his
dissertation was on style sensitivity in children). He remained at Harvard.
Alongside his work with Project Zero (he now co-directs it with David Perkins)
he was a lecturer (1971-1986) and then professor in education (1986- ). His
first major book, The Shattered Mind appeared in 1975 and some fifteen
have followed. Howard Gardner is currently Hobbs Professor of Cognition and
Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and adjunct professor of
neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Project Zero provided an environment
in which Howard Gardner could begin to explore his interest in human cognition.
He proceeded in a very different direction to the dominant discourses
associated with Piaget and with psychometric testing. Project Zero developed as
a major research centre for education – and provided an intellectual home for a
significant grouping of researchers. A key moment came with the establishment
of the Project on Human Potential in the late 1970s (funded by Bernard van Leer
Foundation) to ‘assess the state of scientific knowledge concerning human
potential and its realization’. The result was Frames of Mind (1983)
Howard Gardner’s first full-length statement of his theory of multiple
intelligences.
Howard
Gardner on multiple intelligences – the initial listing
Howard Gardner viewed intelligence
as ‘the capacity to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in
one or more cultural setting’ (Gardner & Hatch, 1989). He reviewed the
literature using eight criteria or ‘signs’ of an intelligence:
Potential isolation by brain
damage.The existence of idiots savants, prodigies and other exceptional
individuals.
An identifiable core operation or
set of operations.
A distinctive development history,
along with a definable set of ‘end-state’ performances.
An evolutionary history and
evolutionary plausibility.
Support from experimental
psychological tasks.
Support from psychometric findings.
Susceptibility to encoding in a
symbol system. (Howard Gardner 1983: 62-69)
Candidates for the title ‘an
intelligence’ had to satisfy a range of these criteria and must include, as a
prerequisite, the ability to resolve ‘genuine problems or difficulties’ (ibid.:
60) within certain cultural settings. Making judgements about this was,
however, ‘reminiscent more of an artistic judgement than of a scientific
assessment’ (ibid.: 62).
Howard Gardner initially formulated
a list of seven intelligences. His listing was provisional. The first two have
been typically valued in schools; the next three are usually associated with
the arts; and the final two are what Howard Gardner called ‘personal
intelligences’ (Gardner 1999: 41-43).
Linguistic
intelligence involves
sensitivity to spoken and written language, the ability to learn languages, and
the capacity to use language to accomplish certain goals. This intelligence
includes the ability to effectively use language to express oneself
rhetorically or poetically; and language as a means to remember information.
Writers, poets, lawyers and speakers are among those that Howard Gardner sees
as having high linguistic intelligence.
Logical-mathematical
intelligence consists
of the capacity to analyze problems logically, carry out mathematical
operations, and investigate issues scientifically. In Howard Gardner’s words,
it entails the ability to detect patterns, reason deductively and think
logically. This intelligence is most often associated with scientific and
mathematical thinking.
Musical
intelligence involves
skill in the performance, composition, and appreciation of musical patterns. It
encompasses the capacity to recognize and compose musical pitches, tones, and
rhythms. According to Howard Gardner musical intelligence runs in an almost
structural parallel to linguistic intelligence.
Bodily-kinesthetic
intelligence entails
the potential of using one’s whole body or parts of the body to solve problems.
It is the ability to use mental abilities to coordinate bodily movements.
Howard Gardner sees mental and physical activity as related.
Spatial
intelligence involves
the potential to recognize and use the patterns of wide space and more confined
areas.
Interpersonal
intelligence is
concerned with the capacity to understand the intentions, motivations and
desires of other people. It allows people to work effectively with others.
Educators, salespeople, religious and political leaders and counsellors all
need a well-developed interpersonal intelligence.
Intrapersonal
intelligence entails
the capacity to understand oneself, to appreciate one’s feelings, fears and
motivations. In Howard Gardner’s view it involves having an effective working
model of ourselves, and to be able to use such information to regulate our
lives.
In Frames of Mind Howard
Gardner treated the personal intelligences ‘as a piece’. Because of their close
association in most cultures, they are often linked together. However, he still
argues that it makes sense to think of two forms of personal intelligence.
Gardner claimed that the seven intelligences rarely operate independently. They
are used at the same time and tend to complement each other as people develop
skills or solve problems.
In essence Howard Gardner argued
that he was making two essential claims about multiple intelligences. That:
The theory is an account of human
cognition in its fullness. The intelligences provided ‘a new definition of
human nature, cognitively speaking’ (Gardner 1999: 44). Human beings are
organisms who possess a basic set of intelligences.
People have a unique blend of
intelligences. Howard Gardner argues that the big challenge facing the
deployment of human resources ‘is how to best take advantage of the uniqueness
conferred on us as a species exhibiting several intelligences’ (ibid.:
45).
These intelligences, according to
Howard Gardner, are amoral – they can be put to constructive or destructive
use.
The
appeal of multiple intelligences to educators
Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple
intelligences has not been readily accepted within academic psychology.
However, it has met with a strongly positive response from many educators. It
has been embraced by a range of educational theorists and, significantly,
applied by teachers and policymakers to the problems of schooling. A number of
schools in North America have looked to structure curricula according to the
intelligences, and to design classrooms and even whole schools to reflect the
understandings that Howard Gardner develops. The theory can also be found in
use within pre-school, higher, vocational and adult education initiatives.
This appeal was not, at first,
obvious.
At first blush, this diagnosis would
appear to sound a death knell for formal education. It is hard to teach one
intelligence; what if there are seven? It is hard to enough to teach even when
anything can be taught; what to do if there are distinct limits and strong
constraints on human cognition and learning? (Howard Gardner 1993: xxiii)
Howard Gardner responds to his
questions by first making the point that psychology does not directly dictate
education, ‘it merely helps one to understand the conditions within which
education takes place’. What is more:
Seven kinds of intelligence would
allow seven ways to teach, rather than one. And powerful constraints that exist
in the mind can be mobilized to introduce a particular concept (or whole system
of thinking) in a way that children are most likely to learn it and least
likely to distort it. Paradoxically, constraints can be suggestive and
ultimately freeing. (op. cit.)
Mindy L. Kornhaber (2001: 276), a
researcher involved with Project Zero, has identified a number of reasons why
teachers and policymakers in North America have responded positively to Howard
Gardner’s presentation of multiple intelligences. Among these are that:
… the theory validates educators’
everyday experience: students think and learn in many different ways. It also
provides educators with a conceptual framework for organizing and reflecting on
curriculum assessment and pedagogical practices. In turn, this reflection has
led many educators to develop new approaches that might better meet the needs
of the range of learners in their classrooms.
The response to Howard Gardner is
paralleled by the adoption of Kolb’s model of experiential learning by adult
and informal educators. While significant criticism can be made of the
formulation (see below) it does provide a useful set of questions and
‘rules of thumb’ to help educators to think about their practice. The way in
which Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences has been translated
into policy and practice has been very varied. Howard Gardner did not,
initially, spell out the implications of his theory for educators in any
detail. Subsequently, he has looked more closely at what the theory might mean
for schooling practice (e.g. in The Unschooled Mind, Intelligence
Reframed, and The Disciplined Mind). From this work three particular
aspects of Gardner’s thinking need noting here as they allow for hope, and an
alternative way of thinking, for those educators who feel out of step with the
current, dominant product orientation to curriculum
and educational policy. The approach entails:
A broad
vision of education.
All seven intelligences are needed to live life well. Teachers, therefore, need
to attend to all intelligences, not just the first two that have been their
tradition concern. As Kornhaber (2001: 276) has noted it involves educators
opting ‘for depth over breadth’. Understanding entails taking knowledge gained
in one setting and using it in another. ‘Students must have extended
opportunities to work on a topic’ (op. cit.).
Developing
local and flexible programmes.
Howard Gardner’s interest in ‘deep understanding’, performance, exploration and
creativity are not easily accommodated within an orientation to the ‘delivery’
of a detailed curriculum planned outside of the immediate educational context.
‘An “MI setting” can be undone if the curriculum is too rigid or if there is
but a single form of assessment’ (Gardner 1999: 147). In this respect the
educational implications of Howard Gardner’s work stands in a direct line from the
work of John Dewey.
Looking to
morality. ‘We must figure out how
intelligence and morality can work together’, Howard Gardner argues, ‘to create
a world in which a great variety of people will want to live’ (Gardner 1999:
4). While there are considerable benefits to developing understanding in
relation to the disciplines, something more is needed.
Are
there additional intelligences?
Since Howard Gardner’s original
listing of the intelligences in Frames of Mind (1983) there has been a
great deal of discussion as to other possible candidates for inclusion (or
candidates for exclusion). Subsequent research and reflection by Howard Gardner
and his colleagues has looked to three particular possibilities: a naturalist
intelligence, a spiritual intelligence and an existential intelligence. He has
concluded that the first of these ‘merits addition to the list of the original
seven intelligences’ (Gardner 1999: 52).
Naturalist
intelligence enables
human beings to recognize, categorize and draw upon certain features of the
environment. It ‘combines a description of the core ability with a
characterization of the role that many cultures value’ (ibid.: 48).
The case for inclusion of naturalist
intelligence appears pretty straightforward, the position with regard to
spiritual
intelligence is far more complex. According to Howard Gardner (1999: 59)
there are problems, for example, around the ‘content’ of spiritual
intelligence, its privileged but unsubstantiated claims with regard to truth
value, ‘and the need for it to be partially identified through its effect on
other people’. As a result:
It seems more responsible to carve
out that area of spirituality closest ‘in spirit’ to the other intelligences
and then, in the sympathetic manner applied to naturalist intelligence,
ascertain how this candidate intelligence fares. In doing so, I think it best
to put aside the term spiritual, with its manifest and problematic
connotations, and to speak instead of an intelligence that explores the nature
of existence in its multifarious guises. Thus, an explicit concern with
spiritual or religious matters would be one variety – often the most important
variety – of an existential intelligence.
Existential
intelligence, a
concern with ‘ultimate issues’, is, thus, the next possibility that Howard
Gardner considers – and he argues that it ‘scores reasonably well on the
criteria’ (ibid.: 64). However, empirical evidence is sparse – and
although a ninth intelligence might be attractive, Howard Gardner is not
disposed to add it to the list. ‘I find the phenomenon perplexing enough and
the distance from the other intelligences vast enough to dictate prudence – at
least for now’ (ibid.: 66).
The final, and obvious, candidate
for inclusion in Howard Gardner’s list is moral intelligence. In his
exploration, he begins by asking whether it is possible to delineate the ‘moral
domain’. He suggests that it is difficult to come to any consensual definition,
but argues that it is possible to come to an understanding that takes
exploration forward. Central to a moral domain, Howard Gardner suggests, ‘is a
concern with those rules, behaviours and attitudes that govern the sanctity of
life – in particular, the sanctity of human life and, in many cases, the
sanctity of any other living creatures and the world they inhabit’ (ibid.:
70). If we accept the existence of a moral realm is it then possible to speak
of moral intelligence? If it ‘connotes the adoption of any specific moral code’
then Howard Gardner does not find the term moral intelligence acceptable (ibid.:
75). Furthermore, he argues, researchers and writers have not as yet ‘captured
the essence of the moral domain as an instance of human intelligence’ (ibid.:
76).
As I construe it, the central component
in the moral realm or domain is a sense of personal agency and personal stake,
a realization that one has an irreducible role with respect to other people and
that one’s behaviour towards others must reflect the results of contextualized
analysis and the exercise of one’s will…. The fulfilment of key roles certainly
requires a range of human intelligences – including personal, linguistic,
logical and perhaps existential – but it is fundamentally a statement about the
kind of person that has developed to be. It is not, in itself, an intelligence.
‘Morality’ is then properly a statement about personality, individuality, will,
character – and, in the happiest cases, about the highest realization of human
nature. (ibid.: 77)
So it is, that Howard Gardner has
added an eighth intelligence – naturalist intelligence – to his list. He has
also opened the door to another possibility – especially that of existential
intelligence – but the court is out on that one.
Howard
Gardner’s multiple intelligences – some issues and problems
There are various criticisms of, and
problems around, Howard Gardner’s conceptualization of multiple intelligences.
Indeed, Gardner himself has listed some of the main issues and his responses
(1993: xxiii-xxvii; 1999: 79-114). Here, I want to focus on three key questions
that have been raised in debates. (There are plenty of other questions around –
but these would seem to be the most persistent):
Are the
criteria Howard Gardner employs adequate? John White (1997) has argued that there are significant
issues around the criteria that Howard Gardner employs. There are questions
around the individual criteria, for example, do all intelligences involve
symbol systems; how the criteria to be applied; and why these particular
criteria are relevant. In respect of the last, and fundamental question, White
states that he has not been able to find any answer in Gardner’s writings (ibid.:
19). Indeed, Howard Gardner himself has admitted that there is an element of
subjective judgement involved.
Does
Howard Gardner’s conceptualization of intelligence hold together? For those researchers and scholars
who have traditionally viewed intelligence as, effectively, what is measured by
intelligence tests – Howard Gardner’s work will always be problematic. They can
still point to a substantial tradition of research that demonstrates
correlation between different abilities and argue for the existence of a
general intelligence factor. Howard Gardner (1993: xxiv) disputes much of the
evidence and argues that it is not possible, as yet, to know how far
intelligences actually correlate. More recent developments in thinking around
intelligence such as Robert Sternberg’s (1985, 1996) advancement of a
‘triarchic model’ have shared Gardner’s dislike of such standard intelligence
theory. However, in contrast to Howard Gardner, Robert Sternberg does not look
strongly at the particular material that the person is processing. Instead he
looks to what he calls the componential, experiential and contextual facets of
intelligence. A further set of criticisms centre around the specific
intelligences that Howard Gardner identified. For example, it can be argued
that musical intelligence and bodily-kinesthetic intelligence are better
approached as talents (they do not normally need to adapt to life demands).
Is there
sufficient empirical evidence to support Howard Gardner’s conceptualization? A common criticism made of Howard
Gardner’s work is that his theories derive rather more strongly from his own
intuitions and reasoning than from a comprehensive and full grounding in
empirical research. For the moment there is not a properly worked-through set
of tests to identify and measure the different intelligences.
I once thought it possible to create
a set of tests of each intelligence – an intelligence-fair version to be sure –
and then simply to determine the correlation between the scores on the several
tests. I now believe that this can only be accomplished if someone developed
several measures for each intelligence and then made sure that people were
comfortable in dealing with the materials and methods used to measure each
intelligence. (Gardner 1999: 98)
Howard Gardner himself has not
pursued this approach because of a more general worry with such testing – that
it leads to labelling and stigmatization. It can be argued that research around
the functioning of the brain generally continues to support the notion of
multiple intelligence (although not necessarily the specifics of Howard
Gardner’s theory).
There are further questions around
the notion of selfhood that Howard Gardner employs – something
that he himself has come to recognize. In the early 1990s he began to look to
the notion of distributed cognition as providing a better way of approaching
the area than focusing on what goes on in the mind of a single individual
(Hatch and Gardner 1993) (see the discussion of social/situational
orientations to learning).
Conclusion
While there may be some significant
questions and issues around Howard Gardner’s notion of multiple intelligences,
it still has had utility in education. It has helped a significant number of
educators to question their work and to encourage them to look beyond the
narrow confines of the dominant discourses of skilling, curriculum, and
testing. For example, Mindy Kornhaber and her colleagues at the Project SUMIT
(Schools Using Multiple Intelligences Theory) have examined the performance of
a number of schools and concluded that there have been significant gains in
respect of SATs scores, parental participation, and discipline (with the
schools themselves attributing this to MI theory). To the extent that Howard
Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory has helped educators to reflect on
their practice, and given them a basis to broaden their focus and to attend to
what might assist people to live their lives well, then it has to be judged a
useful addition.
Project SUMIT (2000) uses the
metaphor of Compass Points -’routes that educators using the theory have
taken and which appear to benefit students’. They have identified the following
markers that characterize schools with some success in implementing practices
that attend to multiple intelligences theory.
Culture:
support for diverse learners and hard work. Acting on a value system which maintains that diverse
students can learn and succeed, that learning is exciting, and that hard work
by teachers is necessary.
Readiness:
awareness-building for implementing MI. Building staff awareness of MI and of the different ways
that students learn.
Tool: MI is a means to foster high
quality work. Using MI as a tool to promote high quality student work rather
than using the theory as an end in and of itself.
Collaboration: informal and formal exchanges.
Sharing ideas and constructive suggestions by the staff in formal and informal
exchanges.
Choice: meaningful curriculum and
assessment options. Embedding curriculum and assessment in activities that are
valued both by students and the wider culture.
Arts. Employing the arts to develop
children’s skills and understanding within and across disciplines.
Informal educators can usefully look
at this listing in respect of their projects and agencies. The multiple intelligences
themselves also provide a good focus for reflection. Arguably, informal
educators have traditionally been concerned with the domains of the
interpersonal and the intrapersonal, with a sprinkling of the intelligences
that Howard Gardner identifies with the arts. Looking to naturalist linguistic
and logical-mathematical intelligences could help enhance their practice.
Further
reading and references
The main Howard Gardner writings on
multiple intelligences are as follows:
Gardner, Howard (1983; 1993) Frames
of Mind: The theory of multiple intelligences, New York: Basic Books. The
second edition was published in Britain by Fontana Press. 466 + xxix pages.
(All references in this article refer to this second, 10th Anniversary,
edition). A major addition to the literature of cognitive psychology being the
first full length explication of multiple intelligences.
Gardner, Howard (1989) To Open
Minds: Chinese clues to the dilemma of contemporary education, New York:
Basic Books. This book includes a significant amount of material on Gardner’s
early life.
Gardner, H. (1991) The Unschooled
Mind: How children think and how schools should teach, New York: Basic
Books.
Gardner, Howard (1999) Intelligence
Reframed. Multiple intelligences for the 21st century, New York: Basic
Books. 292 + x pages. Useful review of Gardner’s theory and discussion of
issues and additions.
Gardner, Howard (1999) The
Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts And Standardized Tests, The K-12 Education That
Every Child Deserves, New York: Simon and Schuster (and New York: Penguin
Putnam).
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To cite
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Mark K. (2002, 2008) ‘Howard Gardner and multiple intelligences’, the
encyclopedia of informal education, http://www.infed.org/mobi/howard-gardner-multiple-intelligences-and-education.
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