The Development and Education of the Mind The Selected Works of Howard Gardner

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces--extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions--so the work can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands of their work and see their contribution to the development of a field.
A developmental psychologist by training, Howard Gardner has spent the last 30 years researching, thinking and writing about the development and education of the mind. He has contributed over 30 years researching, thinking and writing about the development and education of the mind. He has contributed over 30 books and 700 articles to the field. He is best known for his critique of the notion that intelligence is one single human intelligence that can be assessed through psychometric tests. Instead Gardner developed the theory of "multiple intelligence" which states that an individual has eight relatively autonomous intelligence:
- Language
- Music
- Emotional
- Logical-mathematical
- Spatial
- Kinesthetic
- Creative
- Interpersonal (understanding oneself)
This theory has proved popular, particularly with those who see the IQ testing a relatively narrow set of abilities.
In this book, he brings together over 20 of his key writings in one place. The book begins with a specially written Introduction, which gives an overview of Howard's career and contextualizes his selection in this book. Through his selection we can see the development of his thinking as well as the development of the field. This is the onlybook that offers this insight into this great scholar's work.

Leading American psychologist and educator Howard Gardner has assembled his most important writings about education. Spanning over thirty years, this collection reveals the thinking, the concepts and the empirical research that have made Gardner one of the most respected and cited educational authorities of our time. Trained originally as a psychologist at Harvard University, Howard Gardner begins with personal sketches and tributes to his major teachers and mentors. He then presents the work for which he is best-known – the theory of multiple intelligences – including a summary of the original theory and accounts of how it has been updated over the years. Other seminal papers featured include: education in the arts the nature of understanding powerful ways in which to assess learning broad statements about the educational enterprise how education is likely to evolve in the globalised world of the twenty-first century.

1. Influences 2. The Pathbreaking Work of Jean Piaget 3. Jerome S. Bruner as Educator: Project Zero: Nelson Goodman's Legacy in Arts Education 4. Norman Geschwind Creative Genius 5. Developmental Psychology after Piaget: An approach in Terms of Symbolization 6. M.I. Theory 7. Beyond the IQ: Education and Human Development 8. Developing the Spectrum of Human Intelligences 9. Reflections on Multiple Intelligences: Myths and Messages 10. Who Owns Intelligence? 11. Multimedia and Multiple Intelligences12. The Three Faces of Intelligence 13. M.I. after Twenty Years 14. Arts Education 15. Artistic Intelligences 16. Zero-Based Arts Education: An Introduction to Arts Propel 17. Illuminating Comparisons in the Arts 18. The Key in the Slot: Creativity in a Chinese key 19. Disciplinary UnderstandingThe Unschooled Mind: Why Even the Best Students in the Best Schools do not Understand 20. Teaching for Understanding in the Disciplines - and Beyond 21. Multiple Approaches to Understanding 22. Education General 23. Assessment in Context: The Alternative to Standardised Testing 24. The Age of Innocence Reconsidered: Preserving the Best of the Progressive Traditions in psychology and Education 25. How Education Changes: Considerations of History, Science and Values 26. An Education for the Future: The Foundation of Science and Values 27. The Ethical Responsibilities of Professionals