Howard Gardner

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Howard Gardner

Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943 in Scranton , Pennsylvania ) is an American educationalist . He is Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education and Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard University . He is successful as an author of popular science books and also deals with questions of neuroethics . He developed an alternative theory to intelligence, the theory of multiple intelligences .

Life

Gardner's parents Ralph and Hilde Gardner fled as Jews from the National Socialists in Nuremberg in 1938 with their son Eric. Shortly before Howard Gardner was born, his brother died in a sled accident. Both escape and death of the brother were never mentioned in Gardner's childhood, but according to his own admission they had a great influence on his development and thinking.

Gardner studied at Harvard University, first with the goal lawyer to be turned, under the influence of Erik Erikson of psychology and pedagogy for and received his doctorate 1,971th He was then a lecturer and from 1986 professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is currently the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education there. At Harvard he is co-director of Project Zero.

In 1995 Gardner was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 2006 he has been an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .

Gardner is a second marriage and has four children.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The quest for mind: Piaget, Levi-Strauss, and the structuralist movement. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1973.
  • The shattered mind: the person after brain damage. Knopf, New York 1975.
  • Frames of mind: the theory of multiple intelligences. Basic Books, New York 1983, ISBN 0-465-02510-2 .
    • German: Farewell to the IQ. The framework theory of multiple intelligences. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-608-93158-9 .
  • The mind's new science: a history of the cognitive revolution. Basic Books, New York 1985, ISBN 0-465-04634-7 .
    • German: On the trail of thinking. To cognitive science. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-608-93099-X .
  • The unschooled mind: how children think and how schools should teach. Basic Books, New York 1991, ISBN 0-465-08895-3 .
    • German: The untrained head. How children think. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-608-95889-4 .
  • Multiple intelligences: the theory in practice. Basic Books, New York 1993, ISBN 0-465-01822-X .
    • completely revised and updated Multiple intelligences: new horizons. Basic Books, New York 2006, ISBN 978-0-465-04768-0 .
  • Creating minds: an anatomy of creativity seen through the lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham and Gandhi. Basic Books, New York 1993, ISBN 0-465-01454-2 .
    • German: As brilliant as Einstein. Keys to creative thinking. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-608-91677-6 .
  • Leading minds: an anatomy of leadership. Basic Books, New York 1995, ISBN 0-465-08280-7 .
    • German: The future of role models. The profile of the innovative manager. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-608-91809-4
  • with Mindy Kornhaber and Warren Wake: Intelligence: Multiple Perspectives. Harcourt Brace College Publications, Fort Worth 1996, ISBN 0-03-072629-8 .
  • Extraordinary minds: portraits of exceptional individuals and an examination of our extraordinariness. Basic Books, New York 1997, ISBN 0-465-04515-4 .
    • German: creative intelligence. What we have in common with Mozart, Freud, Woolf and Gandhi. Piper, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-492-23415-1 .
  • Intelligence reframed: multiple intelligences for the 21st century. Basic Books, New York 1999, ISBN 0-465-02610-9 .
    • German: Intelligenzen. The diversity of the human mind. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-608-94263-7 .
  • with Mihály Csíkszentmihályi and William Damon: Good work: when excellence and ethics meet. Basic Books, New York 2001, ISBN 0-465-02607-9 .
  • Changing minds: the art and science of changing our own and other peoples minds. Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston 2004, ISBN 1-57851-709-5 .
  • Five minds for the future. Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston 2006, ISBN 1-59139-912-2 .
  • with Katie Davis: The app generation: how today's youth navigate identity, intimacy, and imagination in a digital world. Yale University Press, New Haven 2013, ISBN 978-0-300-19621-4 .

Web links

Wikiquote: Howard Gardner  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Howard Gardner. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ Liz Ford: Howard Gardner: Thought for the future . In: theguardian.com . November 21, 2006. Retrieved September 2, 2016.
  3. ^ Homepage of the Prince of Asturias Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Gardner, Howard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gardner, Howard Earl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American educationalist, professor of education, psychology, and neurology
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Scranton, Pennsylvania , USA