Howard Gardner

An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students

Drawing from his own remarkable experience as a veteran classroom teacher (still in the classroom), Ron Berger gives us a vision of educational reform that transcends standards, curriculum, and instructional strategies. He argues for a paradigm shift - a

Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century

Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity - explicated in such bestselling books as Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences (over 200

Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice

The most complete account of the theory and application of Multiple Intelligences available anywhereHoward Gardner's brilliant conception of individual competence, known as Multiple Intelligences theory, has changed the face of education. Tens of thousand

Changing Minds: The Art And Science of Changing Our Own And Other People's Minds

The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach

The author of "Frames of Mind" and "The Mind's New Science" merges cognitive science with the educational agenda, beginning with a fascinating look at the young child's mind and concluding with a sweeping program for educational reform."An invaluable book

Five Minds for the Future

We live in a time of relentless change. The only thing that's certain is that new challenges and opportunities will emerge that are virtually unimaginable today. How can we know which skills will be required to succeed?In Five Minds for the Future, bestse

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

A revolutionary challenge to the widely held notion that intelligence is a single general capacity possessed by every individual to a greater or lesser extent. Gardner's trailblazing book revolutionized the worlds of education and psychology by positing t

Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi

The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, the K-12 Education That Every Child Deserves

In The Disciplined Mind, Howard Gardner argues that K-12 education should strive for a deep understanding of three classical principles: truth, beauty, and goodness. Such an understanding requires mastery of the major disciplines that human beings have cr

Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet

What does it mean to carry out "good work"? What strategies allow people to maintain moral and ethical standards at a time when market forces wield unprecedented power and work life is being radically altered by technological innovation? These are the que