Howard Gardner's Theory on Multiple Intelligence

Howard Gardner has came up with seven clear intelligences Visual-Spatial, Bodily-kinesthetic, Musical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Linguistic, and Logical-Mathematical that outline individual's strengths and are designed based on different tasks, problem solving, and progress in various types of domains. According to Gardner's theory "we are all able to know the world through language, logical-mathematical analysis, spatial representation, musical thinking, the use of the body to solve problems or to make things, an understanding of other individuals, and an understanding of ourselves”(Lane , C. (n.d.). Multiple Intelligences). Visual-Spatial in Gardner's theory is when a person is taught how to remember things through drawings and verbal and physical imagery. Bodily-kinesthetic is used when a person uses communication through there body language, like role playing, hands on learning,

In “A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences”, Howard Gardner illustrates how there are a variety of intelligences. Gardner starts off with an example how IQ tests may predict achievement in school but may not predict achievement in life. After finding out certain parts of the brain are responsible for certain functions, such as “Broca’s Area” which is responsible for sentence production, Gardner proposes the existence of multiple intelligences. Multiple studies later led him to propose seven distinct intelligences; Musical, bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Each intelligence has certain classifications. According to Gardner’s classifications, I realized my intelligences are bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, and intrapersonal.

Gardner’s eight multiple intelligences is helpful in understanding that people have different methods of intelligence and learning styles. By learning the different types of intelligences, also helps me understand what my strengths and weaknesses are so I could work on improving that particular intelligence or by just acknowledging

Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences challenges the common belief that intelligence is one-dimensional. He believes that there are 8 main intelligences: linguistic, mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist. In the gifted program, teachers and students work together to exercise the different kinds of learning styles, in order to utilize the gifted learner’s full potential. They receive enrichment to do so, as they are guided to using all kinds of intelligences, so they strengthen them starting from a

‘‘Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory can be used for curriculum development, planning instruction, selection of course activities, and related assessment strategies. Instruction which is designed to help students develop their strengths can also trigger their confidence to develop areas in which they are not as strong. Students’ multiple learning preferences can be addressed when instruction includes a range of meaningful and appropriate methods, activities, and assessments. Gardner’s early work in psychology and later in human cognition and human potential’ led to the development of the initial six intelligences. Today there are nine intelligences and the possibility of others may eventually expand the list. These intelligences (or competencies) relate to a person’s unique aptitude set of capabilities and ways they might prefer to demonstrate intellectual abilities’’ ( (Armstrong, T., 2010). Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

You can be intelligent by having bodily kinsthetic. You can coordinate your body with your mind. If you are playing soccer and you're trying to do a skill and be very good at it. "Cordinating your mind with your body, bodily kinsthetic". I was dribbling and a defender came and I did a move to get around her.

Howard Gardner introduced the theory Multiple Intelligence where he believes every person has the capacity to hold a unique set of “intelligences”. Growing up, I was taught that a person who was intelligent held a lot of knowledge. However, Gardner includes the importance of other capacities of intelligence. These intelligences include linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial-visual, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist talents. As teachers, it is crucial to let every child know they are special and hold a unique place in the world. Just because one student is not as good at solving mathematical problems than the other students, it does not mean he/she is less intelligent than the others. That

This theory agreed with the multiple intelligence theory on intelligence being a much broader general ability, but the latter’s intelligences were better perceived as individual talents. This theory explains successful intelligence as involving factors including analytical intelligence which is the problem- solving abilities, creative intelligence which involves the capacity of dealing with new arising situations by using current skills and past experience as well as practical intelligence which is the ability of adapting to change in one’s environment. The third theory is that of multiple intelligences by Howard Gardener which proposes that human intelligence’s numerical expressions are not an accurate depiction of the people's abilities. This theory describes several distinct intelligences which are based on the abilities and skills which are valued in the different cultures including visual-spatial intelligence where thinking is in terms of physical space, verbal-linguistic intelligence where words are used effectively, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence where the body is used effectively, logical-mathematical intelligence where abstract, conceptual and calculations are used, interpersonal intelligence which entails one’s understanding of their goals and interests, musical intelligence where sensitivity to sound and rhythm is shown, intrapersonal intelligence which involves interaction and understanding of others as well as naturalistic intelligence. These differences related to strengths of intelligence are said to challenge the educational system which assumes that every individual can learn similar materials in a similar manner and that a universal, uniform measure does suffice in testing student

In the book, Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice (1993) by Howard Gardner, he proposed seven distinct intelligences that his studies led him to, first being linguistic, meaning that it applies to having great success in learning a language and using it appropriately. This intelligence usually appears more in people who exceed in the english language, such as poets and writers.

Overall, Gardner came up with nine types of intelligences. However, this essay will only cover three of them: verbal/linguistic, body-kinesthetic, and logical/mathematical. This essay will also cover several examples of each type of intelligence. Gardner also had some critics criticizing his research which will also be included throughout the essay.

This intelligence was actually not in the original list in Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence, it was added in after that. These individuals are more keen towards environment. Naturalist learning experience is through discovering the nature, observing the surroundings and relating to the environment. They love to be taught by having classes outdoors such as having field trips from time to time. Their style of studying and understanding is by writing down what they observe and create a living system on to the material that they are trying to interpret so that they can easily figure out the meaning of the materials

The theory of multiple intelligences was developed by Dr. Howard Gardner in 1983. The Theory of Multiple Intelligences is a critique of the standard psychological view of intellect: there is a single intelligence, adequately measured by IQ or other short answer tests. Instead, on the basis of evidence from disparate sources, the theory claims that human beings have a number of relatively discrete intellectual capacities. IQ tests assess linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence, and sometimes spatial intelligence; they are a reasonably good predictor of who will do well in school. This is because humans have several other significant intellectual capacities (Harvard University).

Intelligence has been identified in many different ways throughout history and varies between different cultures. The current idea of intelligence consists of intangible properties that include, but are not limited to, knowledge-based thinking, apprehending, adaptive purposeful striving, fluid-analytic reasoning, mental playfulness, and idiosyncratic learning (Krishnamurthy, 2015).

The theory of multiple intelligence is one that came about in 1983. It is the theory that intelligence should not just be measured by an IQ test. Intelligence is much more than just a test, and has far more different aspects. Dr. Howard Gardner came up with the theory of multiple intelligence and the thought that there are many different types of intelligences. Gardner actually believes that there are eight or more different types of intelligences. According to “Teachers, Schools, and Society” “Gardner believes that his theory of multiple intelligences more accurately captures the diverse nature of human capability.” (pg 29) Some of the eight intelligences Gardner came up with are, Logical mathematical, linguistic, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist. Logical-mathematical is an intelligence that relates more to numbers and problem solving. Linguistic intelligence relates to meanings of sounds and words. Bodily-kinesthetic is related to physical activity, and being able to handle and manipulate items to learn. Musical intelligence is related to being able to produce pitch and rhythm. Spatial intelligence is being “picture smart” and being able to see a model or drawing in their mind. Interpersonal intelligence is being people smart, and being able to analyze people’s moods. Intrapersonal intelligence is knowing yourself and your own feelings and needs. Then there’s naturalist, where someone has the ability to nurture living

Multiple intelligences are intellectual capacities that every human being has. Everyone has different multiple intelligences, an identical twin, even though they share same genetic but they still have different multiple intelligences. This is because everyone grows with dissimilar experiences and lives in different environment. Multiple intelligences consist of eight elements which are musical intelligence, bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, naturalistic intelligence spatial intelligence, logical-mathematics intelligence, and linguistics intelligence (refer to Appendix 1, Figure 1)