Books
The Essential Howard Gardner On Education
During his long and distinguished career as scholar and teacher, Howard Gardner has made vast contributions to our understanding of learning and how to create environments that support growth in all learners across their lifespans. In this compelling collection of his writings, Gardner lays out his principal ideas about education. While known primarily for his theory of multiple intelligences, Gardner’s work in education includes substantial contributions in the areas of early childhood, K–12, and postsecondary education. In this volume, Gardner 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.
The Essential Howard Gardner On Mind
For over half a century, Howard Gardner has studied the mind in its various shapes, forms, and operations, culminating in his best-known work, the theory of multiple intelligences. This volume compiles his most compelling essays on the conduct, contours, and complexity of the human mind. After introducing the thinkers who had the greatest influence on him, Gardner traces the multiple aspects of mind that he has illuminated: the development of cognition, notably in the arts; the breakdown of cognition under condition of brain damage; a probing examination of human cognition at its highest levels, including creativity, leadership, artistry, and “good work” (work that is excellent, engaging, and ethical) in the professions; and, most recently, our extraordinary synthesizing capacities as human beings. This fascinating book captures in one place the long and compelling arc of a major scholar’s contribution to understanding intelligence, thinking, and the development of the range of cognitive strengths.
The Real World of College
The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be co-authored by Wendy Fischman, describes a ten-year, empirical study of non-vocational higher education in the United States. The book discusses findings of more than 2000 in-depth interviews across ten disparate colleges and universities of incoming students, graduating students, faculty, administrators, young alums, trustees, parents, and job recruiters. The authors argue that higher education has lost sight of its principal purpose—to develop the mind to the fullest. In order to survive and thrive, higher education must focus sharply on what they call “higher education capital”—the ability to think well and broadly, express oneself clearly, explore new areas, and be open to possible transformations. At the end of the book, Fischman and Gardner offer cogent recommendations for how individual colleges, a range of stakeholders, and the sector of higher education can help to develop the intellectual capacities students will need to be productive citizens of the world.
A Synthesizing Mind
An authority on the human mind and the theorist of multiple intelligences, Howard Gardner reflects on his own synthesizing mind—how it developed from childhood, how it has evolved over the decades—and provides pointers for those who seek to master the art of synthesis
Selected Books by Howard Gardner
Mind, Work, and Life: A Festschrift on the Occasion of Howard Gardner’s 70th Birthday
Howard Gardner, noted psychologist and educator, turned 70 in 2013. To mark this occasion, 116 of Gardner’s colleagues and friends contributed both personal and scholarly essays to this two-volume set, creating a unique publication providing an overview of his life’s work.
Mind, Work, and Life is available for purchase on Amazon in hard-copy (Volume 1 & Volume 2) or in Kindle format (Volume 1 & Volume 2).
A *free* PDF version of the book is also available for download (PDF).
The App Generation: How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World
No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply—some would say totally—involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today’s young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled” and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era.
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Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter
Many of us take for granted that we know what is true, beautiful, and good. This book discusses the challenges faced by traditional education in light of two forces: the post modern critique from the humanities and the disruptive potentials of the new digital media. Gardner describes how the core ideas of truth, beauty, and goodness can survive and even be strengthened in education across the life span.
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Responsibility at Work
Filled with original essays by Howard Gardner, William Damon, Mihaly Csikszenthmihalyi, and Jeanne Nakamura and based on the large-scale GoodWork® Project, Responsibility at Work reflects on the information gleaned from in-depth interviews with more than 1,200 people from nine different professions.
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Five Minds for the Future
Drawing on decades of cognitive research and rich examples from history, politics, business, science, and the arts, Gardner writes for professionals, teachers, parents, political and business leaders, trainers, and all who prize the cognitive skills at a premium for tomorrow.
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Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons
Gardner’s seminal account of the practical applications of Multiple Intelligences theory is now completely updated and expanded to reflect the latest developments in the field.
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Development and Education of the Mind
In this book, Gardner 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 selections in this book. Through his selections, we can see the development of his thinking as well as the development of the field. This is the only book that offers this insight into this great scholar’s work.
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Changing Minds
Gardner offers insight into the phenomenon of changing minds: why is it so mysterious? How do people become set in a certain way of thinking? And what does it take to change a perspective? Gardner identifies seven levers that aid or thwart the process of mind change.
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GoodWork: Theory and Practice
To commemorate 15 years of the GoodWork Project, researchers with a lengthy connection to the Project assembled a collection of essays. Included are a brief history of the Project, reflections by the three principal investigators, expansions of the theory, critiques of the theory, and several articles that focus on ways in which the findings have been applied in education and related domains.
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Other Books by Howard Gardner
OTHER BOOKS BY HOWARD GARDNER
The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, the K-12 Education that Every Child Deserves (read more…)
Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century (read more…)
Extraordinary Minds: Portraits of Four Exceptional Individuals and an Examination of Our Own Extraordinariness (read more…)
Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership (read more…)
Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice (read more…)
Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity (read more…)
The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach (read more…)
Art Education and Human Development (read more…)
To Open Minds (read more…)
The Mind’s New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution (read more…)
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (read more…)
Art, Mind, & Brain: A Cognitive Approach to Creativity (read more…)
Artful Scribbles: The Significance of Children’s Drawings (read more…)
Developmental Psychology: An Introduction (read more…)
The Shattered Mind: Person After Brain Damage (read more…)
The Arts and Human Development (read more…)
The Quest for Mind: Piaget, Levi-Strauss, and the Structuralist Movement (read more…)
CO-AUTHORED BOOKS
Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet (read more…)
Making Good: How Young People Cope with Moral Dilemmas at Work (read more…)
Practical Intelligence for School (read more…)
Intelligence: Multiple Perspectives (read more…)
Man and Men: Social Psychology as Social Science (read more…)
BOOKS ABOUT HOWARD GARDNER
Howard Gardner Under Fire: The Rebel Psychologist Faces his Critics by Jeffrey Schaler (read more…)