Different intelligences
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Links
Intelligence and Learning
www.bbc.co.uk/learning/returning/betterlearner/
learningstyle/c_intelligence_01.shtml
Find out more about the education reformer Howard Gardner and his ideas about different kinds of intelligence.
Multiple Intelligences
www.newhorizons.org/strategies/mi/front_mi.htm
Articles, questions answered and a good reading list are provided on this website concerned with the theory of multiple intelligences.
Thinkers' Quiz
www.bbc.co.uk/learning/returning/betterlearner/
learningstyle/thinker_quiz/index.shtml
What kind of a thinker are you? Take this BBC quiz to find out.
Books
Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ by Daniel Goleman (Bloomsbury, 1996)
IQ was once considered the leading determinant of success but Goleman makes the case for 'emotional intelligence' being the strongest indicator of human success – defined in terms of self-awareness, altruism, personal motivation, empathy and the ability to love and be loved by others.
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Frames of Mind: Theory of multiple intelligences by Howard Gardner (Fontana Press, 1993)
Gardner demonstrates that there exist many human 'intelligences' common to all cultures, each with its own pattern of development and brain activity and each different in kind from the others.
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In Their Own Way: Discovering and encouraging your child's multiple intelligences by Thomas Armstrong (G P Putnam, 2000)
Outlines individual learning styles while offering exercises for developing linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist intelligences.
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