Howard Gardner
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Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) is an American developmental psychologist who is John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences.Gardner was the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981 and the 1990 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education. Since 1995, he has been the co-director of the GoodWork Project. ContentsMultiple intelligencesMultiple intelligences is an idea that states that human beings have many different ways to learn and process information, or "intelligences." In 1999 Gardner lists eight intelligences as linguistic, logic-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal and intrapersonal. Gardner is still considering a ninth, or existential intelligence, but has not added it yet. Personal lifeHoward is married to Ellen Winner. They have one child, Benjamin, born in 1985. Gardner has three children from an earlier marriage: Kerith (1969), Jay (1971) and Andrew (1976) and one grandchild, Oscar, born 2005. From Wikipedia under the
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