howard gardner

BIOGRAPHY OF HOWARD GARDNER

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds positions as Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. He has received honorary degrees from 26 colleges and universities, including institutions in Bulgaria, Chile, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, and South Korea. In 2005 and again in 2008, he was selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world. Most recently, he was bestowed with the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award in Social Sciences, which aims "to reward the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanistic work." The author of 25 books translated into 28 languages, and several hundred articles, Gardner is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be adequately assessed by standard psychometric instruments.

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During the past two decades, Gardner and colleagues at Project Zero have been
involved in the design of performance-based assessments; education for
understanding; the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized
curriculum, instruction, and pedagogy; and the quality of interdisciplinary efforts
in education. Since the middle 1990s, in collaboration with psychologist Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon, Gardner has directed the GoodWork Project--
a study of work that is excellent, engaging, and ethical. More recently, with long
time Project Zero colleagues Lynn Barendsen and Wendy Fischman, he has
conducted reflection sessions designed to enhance the understanding and
incidence of good work among young people. With Carrie James and other
colleagues at Project Zero, he is also investigating the nature of trust in
contemporary society and ethical dimensions entailed in the use of the new
digital media. Among new research undertakings are a study of effective
collaboration among non-profit institutions in education and a study of conceptions
of quality, nationally and internationally, in the contemporary era. In 2008 he
delivered a set of three lectures at New York's Museum of Modern Art on the topic
"The True, The Beautiful, and The Good: Reconsiderations in a post-modern, digital
era,"from which he drew upon to write the recently published Truth, Beauty and Goodness
Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-First Century.