Multiple Intelligences (Gardner)
Howard Gardner’s theory that intelligence is not one thing but several relatively independent capacities. Pick the ones that feel like your strengths.
Howard Gardner’s theory is hugely popular in education; it remains debated and is not well supported as a set of distinct “intelligences”. (Howard Gardner, 1983)
Groups
- Linguistic — A way with words — reading, writing, speaking, and language.
- Logical–Mathematical — Logic, numbers, reasoning, and abstract problems.
- Spatial — Images, space, and visualising how things fit together.
- Bodily–Kinesthetic — The body, movement, coordination, and physical skill.
- Musical — Rhythm, pitch, sound, and music.
- Interpersonal — Reading, understanding, and relating to other people.
- Intrapersonal — Self-understanding, reflection, and knowing your own mind.
- Naturalistic — Nature, living things, and patterns in the natural world.
- Existential (proposed) — The big questions of meaning, life, and existence.
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