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Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences

19 November 2021   18:36 Diperbarui: 25 Februari 2023   16:50 554
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Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner claimed that modern culture has oversimplified cognition. People who had suffered brain trauma and lost certain functions such as speech but kept others intact encouraged him. According to Howard's idea, there are at least nine ways for humans to be brilliant.

The teacher's work on the growth of multiple intelligences is transcendental in the sense that it stimulates without ever producing paralyzing experiences in children that restrict or impede the development of the multiple intelligences found in them.
Instructors and teachers sometimes measure knowledge using test scores or school grades, with little regard for any other areas in which a person may excel. We all have special talents, skills, and abilities that allow us to understand and change our surroundings.

I believe it is critical to consider different intelligences in regular education. In the educational environment, as I mentioned, more emphasis is placed on the academic aspect, particularly in areas such as mathematics, languages, and history, and instructors overlook extracurricular aspects that are essential for the development of the student, such as the arts or body movement (music, art, and physical education). Separating intelligence into different sorts enables us to solidify the concept that everyone can excel at something; all you have to do is figure out what it is and know how to improve and work on it.
In addition, Gardner defined intelligence as "the ability to digest information to solve problems or develop products that are valuable in a culture." And the nine expressions of such characteristics that he suggested are Isaac Newton's mathematical, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical, Charles Darwin's naturalist, many authors' intrapersonal, famous politicians' interpersonal, and Lionel Messi's corporal and spatial.

In what other aspects do I believe these many intelligences theory might be useful? In retrospect, it might be good for self-evaluation. Could Gardner's theory be useful? In retrospect, it might be good for self-evaluation. And since different intelligences would allow us to understand with absolute clarity that in bodily kinesthetic and spatial intelligence, in which one of my favorite soccer players, Lionel Messi, is a genius, I, who write, am not particularly gifted: I never learned to dance properly, and I rarely scored a goal while playing soccer. During his high school and college years, long before he was introduced to Gardner’s theories, this man achieved fair marks in the demanding disciplines of logic (such as mathematics), verbal ability, sensitivity, and musical talent and decided that his mental talents lay in these areas.

Finally, Howard Gardner's thesis gave humanity another term to refer to an intelligent individual. Originally, you could only aspire to this designation if you were good at math or science. However, due to his suggestion, we can all be geniuses in many fields, such as music, art, literature, languages, numbers, etc.
Everyone possesses the nine intelligences, which are influenced by their surroundings in order to develop and progress. So let's get down to business...

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