multiple intelligences
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"An intelligence is the ability to solve problems, or to create
products, that are valued within one or more cultural settings."
-Howard Gardner
FRAMES OF MIND (1983)
When measuring the ability to learn new information and utilize it in the future we often talk about intelligence. Intelligence is often tied with such words as wise, smart, clever, astute, and sharp. For many years intelligence was perceived as a unitary concept. However questions arose if intelligence could be broken down into several independent analyses. Howard Gardner, Ph. D. first questioned the idea of a single intelligence with his "theory of multiple intelligences" while working at Harvard University. He went on to release several books in which he argued that human beings have nine individual intelligences in all.
The first seven intelligences were identified in Gardner's book "Frames of Mind" which was released in 1983...