A new form of intelligence

In my first year in the college, I had to do an essay of Howard Gardner and his work, but who is he? Well Howard Gardner is an American psychologist , he was born in 1949 and he is the author of an important theory, the theory of multiple intelligence. The scope of his work is quite big. First of all his theory was elaborated in a time of a hegemonic conception of intelligence which believes that  people´s intelligence is measured only by their performance in the school tests. Gardner was highly critical about that because of the social stereotypes involved  because society labbels as a fool a person that didn´t had a good performance in the school grades but  doesn´t involve that the person is a real fool, it only means a person doesn´t have the abilities on that particular field. In summary the school was the best predictor of success in the person´s life.

 The theory of multiple intelligence was elaborated in 1983 and dictates that a person have at least seven different and separated intelligences. I like Gardner´s work because it opens a new way of thinking the concept of intelligence and also has opened a new way of teaching. There are many school nowadays that are using  Gardner´s work to create new forms of teaching and get a children's maximum potential.

The seven intelligences are:

Ø  Logic and mathematical intelligence

Ø  Spacial intelligence

Ø  Musical intelligence

Ø  Bodily kinesthetic intelligence

Ø  intrapersonal intelligence

Ø  interpersonal Intelligence

Ø  Naturalist Intelligence