Theory of multiple intelligences

Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences is a psychological and educational theory suggests several different kinds of "intelligence" exist in humans, each relating to a different sphere of human life and activity. Educators, the theory states, can reach all of their students only by adapting their teaching program to meet all the types of intelligence which their target audience possesses. Various books and educational materials are marketed premised on this concept.

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Howard Gardner - Psychological - Educational - Theory - Intelligence

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Gardner bases his theory on (a) his interpretation of studies of people who have had brain damage and studying their relative ability or inability to learn, (b) the belief that all humans are equally intelligent.

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Brain - Learn

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