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Multiple Intelligences Profiler
The IQ test as we know it today grew out
of the work of French psychologist Alfred Binet, who, in the early years of the
20th century, devised a test to identify children whose learning problems
required remedial education. Over the years it has become the standard measure
of intelligence while provoking fierce, passionate debate among academics,
educators, and lay public. Typically, the IQ test predominantly measures an
individual’s ability with linguistic and logical-mathematical challenges
as well as some visual and spatial tasks.
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Multiple Intelligences Profiler
In 1983, Dr. Howard Gardner, professor of
education at Harvard University, developed “The theory of multiple
intelligences”. It suggests that the traditional notion of intelligence,
based on IQ. testing, is far too limited. Instead, Howard Gardner proposes
eight different intelligences to account for a broader range of human potential
in children and adults. These intelligences are: Linguistic,
Logical-mathematical, Visual-Spatial, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Musica,l
Interpersonal, Intrapersonal and Naturalist.
Howard Gardner says that
our schools and culture focus most of their attention on linguistic and
logical-mathematical intelligence. We respect the highly articulate or logical
people of our culture. However, Howard Gardner says that we should also place
equal attention on individuals who show gifts in the other intelligences: the
artists, architects, musicians, naturalists, designers, dancers, therapists,
entrepreneurs, and others who enrich the world in which we live. Unfortunately,
many children who have these gifts don’t receive much reinforcement for
them in school. Many of these children, in fact, end up being labelled
“learning disabled,” “ADD (attention deficit disordered)”,
or simply underachievers, when their unique ways of thinking and learning
aren’t addressed by a heavily linguistic or logical-mathematical
classroom.
The theory of multiple intelligences proposes a major
transformation in the way our schools are run. It suggests education must value
all the different aspects of intelligence, not just those that can be easily
measured using paper and pencil test. It suggests that teachers be trained to
present their lessons in a wide variety of ways using music, co-operative
learning, art activities, role play, multimedia, field trips, inner reflection,
and much more.
Multiple intelligences theory also has strong
implications for adult learning and development. Many adults find themselves in
jobs that do not make optimal use of their most highly developed intelligences
(for example, the highly bodily-kinesthetic individual who is stuck in a
linguistic or logical desk-job when he or she would be much happier in a job
where they could move around, such as a recreational leader, a sports coach, or
physical therapist).
The theory of multiple intelligences gives adults
a whole new way to look at their lives, examining potentials that they left
behind in their childhood (such as a love for art or drama) but now have the
opportunity to develop through courses, hobbies, or other programs of
self-development
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