Seven Kinds of Smart
T he American psychologist Howard Gardner renovates the intelligence concept with its theory of the multiple intelligences. It sustains that the human being possesses seven intelligence forms that are at least:
1. Linguistic
People with this kind of intelligence enjoy writing, reading, telling
stories or doing crossword puzzles.
2. Logical-Mathematical
People with lots of logical intelligence are interested in patterns,
categories and relationships. They are drawn to arithmetic problems,
strategy games and experiments.
3. Bodily-Kinesthetic
These people process knowledge through bodily sensations. They are
often athletic, dancers or good at crafts such as sewing or
woodworking.
4. Spatial
These people think in images and pictures. They may be fascinated
with mazes or jigsaw puzzles, or spend free time drawing, building
with blocks or daydreaming.
5. Musical
Musical people are always singing or drumming to themselves. They are
usually quite aware of sounds others may miss. These folks are often
discriminating listeners.
6. Interpersonal
People who are leaders among their peers, who are good at
communicating and who seem to understand others' feelings and
motives possess interpersonal intelligence.
7. Intrapersonal
These people may be shy. They are very aware of their own feelings
and are self-motivated.
Gardner sustains that a group of relatively autonomous human competitions that he denominates human intelligence exists and that they conform the man's intellectual structure. People and cultures can model this intelligence in multiple ways adaptive.
Gardner makes notice that the intelligence that are develop more they are those that the environment stimulates.
If we meditate on the existence in seven ways different from intelligence, we should wonder up to where we are cultivating them in our schools and schools. In our country, for example, they given bigger importance to the mathematical linguistic and logical intelligence, being in a second plane the Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence (it is only important in classes of Physical Education) and the space one. As for the personal intelligence, if they are considered essential in Costa Rica, but they are not still considered as intelligence, but like part of the student's behavior.
It would be of great profit for our educational system to look for the forms of cultivating that personal intelligence that so much can favor our emotional and social life.
The valuable of the theory of Gardner is that it takes to that person related with education, to take into account the existence of this varied intelligence that the human being possesses. Leaving of this point, the different educational models can be analyzed that characterize to today's societies and the intelligence forms that favor to point.
The definition of an intellectual profile of the students it would be valuable, so much to offer the best opportunities to those who possess some special talent it more soon in their life, like to offer a compensatory teaching to those that has some weakness.
T he American psychologist Howard Gardner renovates the intelligence concept with its theory of the multiple intelligences. It sustains that the human being possesses seven intelligence forms that are at least:
1. Linguistic
People with this kind of intelligence enjoy writing, reading, telling
stories or doing crossword puzzles.
2. Logical-Mathematical
People with lots of logical intelligence are interested in patterns,
categories and relationships. They are drawn to arithmetic problems,
strategy games and experiments.
3. Bodily-Kinesthetic
These people process knowledge through bodily sensations. They are
often athletic, dancers or good at crafts such as sewing or
woodworking.
4. Spatial
These people think in images and pictures. They may be fascinated
with mazes or jigsaw puzzles, or spend free time drawing, building
with blocks or daydreaming.
5. Musical
Musical people are always singing or drumming to themselves. They are
usually quite aware of sounds others may miss. These folks are often
discriminating listeners.
6. Interpersonal
People who are leaders among their peers, who are good at
communicating and who seem to understand others' feelings and
motives possess interpersonal intelligence.
7. Intrapersonal
These people may be shy. They are very aware of their own feelings
and are self-motivated.
Gardner sustains that a group of relatively autonomous human competitions that he denominates human intelligence exists and that they conform the man's intellectual structure. People and cultures can model this intelligence in multiple ways adaptive.
Gardner makes notice that the intelligence that are develop more they are those that the environment stimulates.
If we meditate on the existence in seven ways different from intelligence, we should wonder up to where we are cultivating them in our schools and schools. In our country, for example, they given bigger importance to the mathematical linguistic and logical intelligence, being in a second plane the Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence (it is only important in classes of Physical Education) and the space one. As for the personal intelligence, if they are considered essential in Costa Rica, but they are not still considered as intelligence, but like part of the student's behavior.
It would be of great profit for our educational system to look for the forms of cultivating that personal intelligence that so much can favor our emotional and social life.
The valuable of the theory of Gardner is that it takes to that person related with education, to take into account the existence of this varied intelligence that the human being possesses. Leaving of this point, the different educational models can be analyzed that characterize to today's societies and the intelligence forms that favor to point.
The definition of an intellectual profile of the students it would be valuable, so much to offer the best opportunities to those who possess some special talent it more soon in their life, like to offer a compensatory teaching to those that has some weakness.
