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A Synthesizing Mind

Howard Gardner’s Frames of Mind was that rare publishing phenomenon—a mind-changer. Widely read by the

general public as well as by educators, this influential book laid out Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. It

debunked the primacy of the IQ test and inspired new approaches to education; entire curricula, schools, museums,

and parents’ guides were dedicated to the nurturing of the several intelligences. In his new book, A Synthesizing Mind,

Gardner reflects on his intellectual development and his groundbreaking work, tracing his evolution from bookish

child to eager college student to disengaged graduate student to Harvard professor.

Gardner discusses his mentors (including Erik Erikson and Jerome Bruner) and his collaborators (Mihaly

Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon, and others). Comedian Groucho Marx makes a surprise (non-)appearance,

declining Gardner’s invitation to chat with Harvard College students, in favor of “making a living.”

Throughout his career, Gardner has focused on human minds in general, or on the minds of particular creators

and leaders. Reflecting now on his own mind, he concludes that his is a “synthesizing mind”—with the ability to

survey experiences and data across a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. The thinkers he most admires—

including historian Richard Hofstadter, biologist Charles Darwin, and literary critic Edmund Wilson—are exemplary

synthesizers. Gardner contends that the synthesizing mind is particularly valuable at this time and proposes ways to

cultivate a possibly unique human capacity


Author:

  • Howard Gardner

Narrator:

  • Graham Winton

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 7 h 28 min

Language:

English

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  • Natural sciences and medicine

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    Howard Gardner

    Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 2005 and again in 2008, he was selected by Foreign Policy and The American Prospect magazines as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world. Most recently, Gardner received the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences. The author of twenty-eight books translated into thirty-two languages, and several hundred articles, Gardner is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be adequately assessed by standard psychometric instruments.

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