TY - JOUR
AU - Mark Lynch, W.
AB - Howard Gardner (New York: Basic Books, 1993) Reviewed by W. Mark Lynch, Broadneck High School When a book reveals to educators how theory can provide a true structure for the experiences and intuitions of everyday teaching life, it is a gift that speeds our progress, making it richer and stronger. Howard Gardner' s Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice — A Reader is such a gift. This book gives us new ways to see who our students are and to understand their differences more clearly. Furthermore, it provides a focus point that can lead educators to reconsider school and curriculum reform, new forms of assessment, and what the purposes of our schools should be. When I first read Frames of Mind (1983), Gardner's ideas of multiple intelligences struck a strong responsive chord regarding much personal classroom experience and intuition about "intelligence." Gardner asserts that the IQ or intelligence test — Binet's turn-of the-century creation to detect students who needed interventional help for school success — had been misused in such a way as to lead astray ideas about intelligence and cognition. The use of this cheap, convenient tool had given us an illusion of what intelligence was. Even worse, 
TI - Multiple Intelligences
JF - Teaching Education
DO - 10.1080/1047621950070122
DA - 1995-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/multiple-intelligences-049ANKlwzb
SP - 155
EP - 157
VL - 7
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -