Howard Gardner's writings on education cover multiple intelligences, early childhood, K–12, and postsecondary education, and offer a vision of quality education for all students. He emphasizes the importance of truth, beauty, and goodness, authentic assessment, interdisciplinary thinking, creativity, synthesis, deep understanding, and ethical mind cultivation.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2024
Publisher: Teachers' College Press

Howard Gardner's Contributions to Education

Howard Gardner is a renowned scholar and educator who has made significant contributions to our understanding of learning and the creation of environments that support growth in all learners across their lifespans. His work in education spans multiple areas, including early childhood, K–12, and postsecondary education, and he is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences. However, his contributions to education extend far beyond this theory. In this collection of his writings, Gardner lays out his principal ideas about education, providing readers with a lifetime's worth of insight into creating purposeful curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment.

Gardner's work in education includes substantial contributions in the areas of early childhood, K–12, and postsecondary education. In this volume, he provides readers with a lifetime's worth of insight into creating purposeful curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment, ideas developed at Harvard Project Zero (where he has been a leader and principal investigator for over half a century), as well as in collaborations with educators from around the world, ranging from preschools in Reggio Emilia (Italy) to art classes in China. Gardner includes a timely focus on education in a global era, influenced by continuing technological innovations, yet still grounded in the pursuit of fundamental human values.

This is the single most comprehensive survey of Howard Gardner's writing and thinking about education. It offers an unparalleled survey of the principal concerns of a major educational thinker in our times, draws on decades of experience as a teacher, researcher, and public intellectual to present a vision of how quality education can best be achieved for all students, reviews the principal strands of the world-renowned theory of multiple human intelligences, including timely explanations and updates, and makes the case for an education that foregrounds and cultivates an appreciation of truth, beauty, and goodness. It situates concepts and recommendations within the broader pr

Weight: 464g
Dimension: 229 x 156 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780807769829