Multiple Intelligences

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Multiple Intelligences
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Creator

• Howard Gardners Multiple Intelligence Theory was
  published in a book in 1983.
• He originally claimed that there were 7
  relatively independent intelligences. An 8th was
  added in 1999 and more recently a 9th was added
• He also stated that each individual has a
  different degree of each intelligence. Each
  person is unique.

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• According to Howard Gardner, as presented in his
  book Frames of Mind The Theory of Multiple
  Intelligences
• "it becomes necessary to say, once and for all,
  that there can never be, a single irrefutable and
  universally accepted list of human
  intelligences." (pg.60)

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The 9 Multiple Intelligences

• Linguistic Intelligence
• Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
• Intra-Personal Intelligence
• Interpersonal Intelligence
• Musical Intelligence
• Spatial Intelligence
• Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
• Naturalistic Intelligence
• Existential Intelligence

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Linguistic Intelligence

• Sensitivity to the meaning of words
• Can follow the rules of grammar
• Sensitive to the order of words, their sounds,
  rhythms, and inflections
• Poets, authors, reporters, speakers, attorneys,
  talk-show hosts, politicians, lecturers, and
  teachers may exhibit developed linguistic
  intelligence

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Logical-Mathematical Intelligence

• Critical and Abstract thinker
• Problem solving comes naturally
• Learn best through measuring, categorizing, and
  analyzing
• Mathematicians, engineers, physicists,
  researchers, astronomers, and scientists may
  exhibit developed logical-mathematical
  intelligence

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Intra-Personal Intelligence

• Works best alone
• Reflective
• Can detect feelings
• Knows oneself and inner feelings
• Novelists, therapists, sages, psychologists, and
  philosophers may exhibit developed intra-personal
  intelligence

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Inter-Personal Intelligence

• Interacts well with others
• Able to read the intentions and desires of others
• Good team player, mediating conflicts, and is a
  socializer
• Politicians, religious leaders, and those in the
  helping professions may exhibit developed
  inter-personal intelligence

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Musical Intelligence

• Ability to use the core set of musical elements-
  pitch, rhythm, and tone
• Learn best when things are put to music
• Singers, composers, instrumentalists, conductors,
  and those who enjoy, understand, use, create,
  perform, and appreciate music and/or elements of
  music may exhibit developed musical intelligence

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Spatial Intelligence

• good sense of directions
• Capacity to think in visual images
• Learns best through seeing and observing
• Creative
• Sailors, engineers, surgeons, sculptors,
  painters, cartographers, and architects may
  exhibit developed spatial intelligence

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Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence

• Control of ones bodily motions
• Able to handle objects skilfully
• Learn best with hands on and acting things out
• Actors, dancers, swimmers, acrobats, athletes,
  jugglers, instrumentalists and artisans may
  exhibit developed bodily-kinesthetic intelligence

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Naturalistic Intelligence

• Interested in the natural world- plants, animals,
  and scientific studies
• Can recognize, classify, and explain things from
  the natural world
• Farmers, ranchers, hunters, gardeners, and animal
  handlers may exhibit developed naturalistic
  intelligence

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Existential Intelligence

• Able to be sensitive or have the capacity for
  understanding deeper or larger questions about
  human existence.
• Meaning of life, why are we born, why do we die,
  what is consciousness, how did we get here?