I would like to talk about Howard Gardner. Gardner was born in 1943 in Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in Social Relations and a doctorate in evolutionary psychology. She worked on Project Zero, where she researched the development of children’s and adults ’learning processes. He taught piano, education, psychology, and neurology. He is the author of the books "Multiple Intelligences," "Creative Minds," and "The Unschooled Mind," among many others. Gardner has been the person who has inspired the major and most innovative education reforms being implemented around the world. It proposes models of education focused on developing people’s talent, where all skills are enhanced. Gardner defines it as the ability to solve problems or craft products that are valuable in one or more intelligence cultures. It broadens the concept of intelligence and recognizes that academic success is not everything. There are people with great intellectual capacity, who are unable to orient themselves in a great city; and conversely, people who are very good at music, but without great academic ability. For Gardner, intelligence is a capacity, a skill that can be developed, although he also agrees that we are all born with genetic potentialities that are developed in one way or another depending on the environment, the education ...
Intelligence for Gardner is the ability to:
-Solve everyday problems.
- Ask questions and problems.
-Providing services within the cultural field itself depends on three factors: environmental factors, genetic factors, and factors related to brain integrity.
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences is based on the different abilities that every human mind has and the possibilities we each have to be able to use them when we need them. There are at least eight, there are many and many. Not all develop in the same way, they are independent of each other but at the same time they are also related to each other, and when you develop one you do the same for the others. With this, we realize the mistake that is made in defining people with a single intelligence. These are the eight types of intelligence: Musical, Linguistic, Spatial, Body-Kinesthetic, Logical-Mathematical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal and Naturalistic Intelligence. Most individuals have all the intelligence; each is developed differently. We use them and combine them to varying degrees and in a personal and unique way.
One cannot understand how music intellectually affects people, without understanding multiple intelligences. In order to see what intelligence it is related, or to which it favours.
Following this, it might be interesting to consider some cases of intellectual disability.
All intelligences should also be taken into account when saying that a child has a talent or is gifted and not only take into account very good grades or have a musical talent but also take into account some other intelligence such as kinesthetics and that the child has a great capacity for control and knowledge about his body.
It's just a thought that sometimes comes to my mind ...
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