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Howard Gardner on His Theory of Multiple Intelligences, and Lessons for COVID-19 Era

From This Week with EdSurge · Hosted by Ira Apfel

September 1, 2020·29:08

Episode summary

In this episode of This Week with EdSurge: Howard Gardner has made a long and influential career exploring the mind and how to think about it. This month Gardner came out with a different kind of book, one where he looks inward. It’s a memoir called A Synthesizing Mind.

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Howard Gardner has made a long and influential career exploring the mind and how to think about it. This month Gardner came out with a different kind of book, one where he looks inward. It’s a memoir called A Synthesizing Mind. He argues that we need to encourage more synthesizing thinkers in this challenging moment of polarization and pandemic.