Couverture / Jaquette

"Gardner's memoir places his work on multiple intelligences within the arc of his academic career, and presents a defense of the scholarly and public value of powerful 'works of synthesis.'"--

Note biographique

Howard Gardner

Table des matières

Introduction ix 
Part I The Formation of a Synthesizing Mind 
1 My Ten-Year-Old Mind 3 
2 Weighing Tests and Tracks 19 
3 Discovering Enduring Interests and Alluring Approaches 35 
4 Resisting a Single Frame 63 
5 Assembling a Network of Enterprises 91 
Part II Multiple Intelligences: Reframing a Human Conversation 
6 Steps toward Frames 109 
7 Reactions to MI 129 
8 MI in the World 141 
9 Putting MI in Its Place 159 
Part III Unpacking the Synthesizing Mind 
10 On to Education and Good Work 177 
11 My Scattered Pursuits and the Mind That Connects Them 197 
12 Understanding the Synthesizing Mind 211 
Acknowledgments 237 
Appendix: List of Blog Posts by the Author 239 
Bibliography 245 
Index 249

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