Issue 15. March 17, 2025 Does Existential Reasoning meet the requirements for an intelligence? An Existential Moment? Whose hand is this? The fickle finger of fate? God? One of the gods (or Godz)? Who hasn’t felt this way at some point in life? Is this a daily activity? Or a middle of the night, it’s …
How can the MI assessment enhance a teacher’s understanding of a student’s under-achievement ?
Multiple intelligences is best known as an educational theory. Are there applications for adults?
MI theory continues to be challenged by traditional psychologists and conventional educators as being invalid. Criteria used by Howard Gardner- To qualify as an intelligence, each set of abilities has to fair reasonably well in meeting 8 criteria. 1- identifiable cerebral systems 2- evolutionary history and plausibility 3- core set of operations 4- meaning encoded …
MI Question #3: Is there evidence that MI theory is valid? Read More »
Issue 13. Dec. 12, 2023 Gillian is a seven-year-old girl who cannot sit in school. She continually gets up, gets distracted, flies with thoughts, and doesn’t follow lessons. Her teachers worry about her, punish her, scold her, reward the few times that she is attentive, but nothing. Gillian does not know how to sit and …
Multiple Intelligences in History of Education Reform Read More »
Nov. 20, 2023 Getting Started with MI Despite the Challenges Welcome to the 12th Issue! We are nearing the end of the year of commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Frames of Mind, where MI theory was introduced by Howard Gardner in 1983. This may the next to the last issue of the year because …
Issue 12. Multiple Intelligences for New Teachers Read More »
Oct. 6, 2023 Welcome to Barriers and Bridges in the Classroom! Joyce van Deursen, teacher, Netherlands This is a special double issue. Authors address two themes: Is MI valid? Does MI work in the classroom? Of course, these are vital questions as acceptance of MI in schools hinges on their answers. Conventional leaders have done …
Sept. 15, 2023 Frits Schoeren Reflects on MI in the Netherlands Dr. Howard Gardner’s theory was known to me in the 1990s. I applied the basic principles of MI in my work as a music psychotherapist in a large housing institution for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. In addition, I supervised Intervision meetings with …
Issue 10 – Multiple Intelligences in the Netherlands Read More »
Sept. 5, 2023 I was a little surprised when Ed Bundy asked about using my MIDAS assessment to understand the MI profiles of bomb technicians-in-training. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it made sense because I’d already profiled pilots, firefighters, police, law students, artists, dancers, musicians and many other professionals. …
Issue 9 – Bomb Disposal and Multiple Intelligences Read More »
