The Essential Howard Gardner on Mind

Howard Gardner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2024
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6936-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Book Features:

Presents Howard Gardner’s essential essays on mind over the course of his long and distinguished career.
Traces the influences on Gardner’s own thinking, among them psychologists Jean Piaget and Jerome Bruner, philosophers Susanne Langer and Nelson Goodman, neurologist Norman Geschwind, and anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Shows how an understanding of human cognitive capacities and processes manifests itself in several domains, such as artistry, leadership, creativity, and excellence in the professions.

Howard Gardner, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, is the Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among his numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, the Grawemeyer Prize in Education, a fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Prince of Asturias Award in the Social Sciences, and the American Educational Research Association’s Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award. His books include The Essential Howard Gardner on Education.

Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Influences

1. Jean Piaget: The Psychologist as Renaissance Man 7

The Philosopher’s Shadow 9

2. Jerome Seymour Bruner: Cognitive Psychology Enters the Educational Arena 10

References 14

3. Project Zero: Nelson Goodman’s Legacy in Arts Education 15

What of Goodman’s Legacy to Project Zero? 20

References 21

4. Norman Geschwind as a Creative Scientist 22

References 25

Early Work

5. Piaget and Lévi-Strauss: The Quest for Mind 29

References 41

6. From Mode to Symbol: Thoughts on the Genesis of the Arts 42

References 50

7. Note on Selective Imitation by a 6-Week-Old Infant 53

Judith Gardner and Howard Gardner

Reference 54

8. Children’s Sensitivity to Painting Styles 55

Developmental Psychology

9. Style Sensitivity in Children 59

Style Detection in the Adult 63

Problems 66

Relation to Cognition 67

References 68

10. The Development of Metaphoric Understanding 69

Ellen Winner, Anne K. Rosenstiel, and Howard Gardner

Reference 71

11. First Intimations of Artistry 72

Howard Gardner and Ellen Winner

The Enigma of Early Artistic Production 72

Early Metaphors 74

First Drawings 78

Patterns of Development in Literary and Graphic Realms 81

Portraying the Skills of the Young Child: A First Draft of Artistry 82

Two Facets of Artistry 86

References 88

12. Developmental Psychology After Piaget: An Approach in Terms of Symbolization 89

Introduction: The Piagetian Enterprise 89

Critiques of the Piagetian Enterprise 90

Symbolization: A Starting Point 92

Relation to Other Lines of Inquiry 95

References 97

Introduction to the Study of Brain Damage

13. The Contribution of Operativity to Naming Capacity 103

Abstract 103

Discussion 103

14. Bee but Not Be: Oral Reading of Single Words in Aphasia and Alexia 105

Abstract 105

Findings 106

Reference 107

15. The Comprehension of Metaphor in Brain-Damaged Patients 108

Ellen Winner and Howard Gardner

Discussion 110

In Sum 111

Acknowledgment 112

Reference 112

16. The Stories of the Right Hemisphere: Missing the Point 113

The Stories of the Right Hemisphere 113

Introduction to Multiple Intelligences

17. In a Nutshell 121

What Constitutes an Intelligence? 123

The Original Set of Intelligences 124

Newly Identified Intelligences 130

The Unique Contributions of the Theory 132

Conclusion 134

References 134

18. A “Smart” Lexicon 135

References 137

19. Artistic Intelligences 138

Reference 142

20. Who Owns Intelligence? 143

References 151

Cognition

21. Definition and Scope of Cognitive Science 155

22. Scientific Psychology: Should We Bury It or Praise It? 157

The Emerging Disciplinary Topography 159

The Surviving Center 160

Whither Psychologists? 162

References 163

Heights of Cognition: Creativity

23. Seven Creators of the Modern Era 167

The Problem 167

Two Promising Approaches 168

A Preliminary Definition 169

A Research Program 170

Where Is Creativity? 171

The Person 173

The Domain 173

The Field 174

Tensions Across Nodes 174

Developmental Perspective 175

Features That Characterize Creative Individuals 176

References 178

24. Creativity: The View From Big C and the Introduction of Tiny c 179

Howard Gardner and Emily Weinstein

Background 179

The Twenty-First Century: Three Challenges 181

Emily 182

Toward “Tiny c” 184

References 186

Leadership

25. Leadership: An Overview 189

What Is a Leader? 189

A Study of Leaders 191

The Intelligences of a Leader 192

Leaders Take Risks, Defy Authority 193

Leaders Try and Fail . . . and Then Try Again, Quite Possibly With a Different Tack 194

A Leader and Authenticity 195

Indirect Leaders: Creative Minds 196

Three Lessons 197

Defeat Is an Opportunity 198

Reference 198

26. On Good Leadership: Reflections on Leading Minds After Three Decades 199

An Approach to Good Leadership 200

Reference 201

27. Changing Minds: 80/20 and Five Rs 202

Mental Representations: The 80/20 Principle 202

1. Reason 205

2. Research 205

3. Resonance 205

By the Way: Rhetoric 206

4. Representational Redescriptions (Redescriptions for Short) 206

5. Resources and Rewards 206

6. Real-World Events 207

7. Resistances 207

References 208

Positive Uses of Mind: Introduction to Good Work

28. Tanner Lecture #1: What Is Good Work? 213

References 224

29. Tanner Lecture #2: Achieving Good Work in Turbulent Times 225

References 234

The Professions

30. Compromised Work 237

31. The Lonely Profession 248

With Laura Horn

Evidence of Professional Identity 249

Professional Stance 250

Why Don’t They Identify With Philanthropy? 253

Lonely Work 257

32. In Defense of Disinterestedness in the Digital Era 262

Terminology 264

The Difference That a Half-Century Can Make 268

Enter the Digital Media 269

References 276

33. The Future of the Professions 277

Autobiographical Reflection 277

Introducing the Susskinds 279

A Question of Values 281

References 282

Minds of the Future

34. Five Minds for the Future: An Introduction 285

Disciplined 287

Synthesizing 288

Creating 288

Respectful and Ethical 289

Education in the Large 290

Reference 290

35. Musings About a Synthesizing Mind 291

An Aside 294

References 295

36. Some Further Reflections on the Synthesizing Mind 296

References 306

37. Why the App Generation? 307

Howard Gardner and Katie Davis

Enter Apps 308

References 310

Miscellanea

38. Human Potential: A Forty-Year Saga 313

References 319

39. Had I but World Enough and Time 320

The Synthesizing Mind 320

Good Work: The Ethical Perspective 321

Intelligences 322

Education From the Cradle on . . . in the Anthropocene 323

Gratitude 323

Original Publication List 325

Index 329

Permissions 337

About the Author 339

Erscheinungsdatum	29.08.2024
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
ISBN-10	0-8077-6936-3 / 0807769363
ISBN-13	978-0-8077-6936-2 / 9780807769362
Zustand	Neuware