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A New Theoretical Perspective of Cognitive Abilities
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Lynch, Sharon A.; Warner, Laverne – Childhood Education, 2012
Defining intelligence is a puzzle that has challenged educators and researchers for years. More recently, professionals are acknowledging that individuals possess many facets of intelligence and that learning is a complex combination of genetic factors, environmental influences, and life experiences that affect learning in unique ways (Salvia,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Multiple Intelligences, Educational Principles, Educational Practices
Issues in Education: Readiness for School or for School Culture?
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Cooney, Margaret H. – Childhood Education, 1995
Views school readiness as an ideological issue affecting American society and dominated by middle-class white values, which results in different treatment for middle-class students and "deficient students." Advocates moving away from a two-tiered system of education and toward a more democratic form of schooling that recognizes multiple…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Ideology, Interpersonal Competence
Bridging Home and School through Multiple Intelligences.
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Reiff, Judith C. – Childhood Education, 1996
Suggests that teachers can share information with parents about multiple intelligences and encourage parents to provide activities to nurture their child's own intelligences. Provides teachers with instructional strategies and parents with activities related to linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal,…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Interpersonal Competence, Kinesthetic Perception, Language Skills
Helping Children Learn Mathematics through Multiple Intelligences and Standards for School Mathematics.
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Adams, Thomasenia Lott – Childhood Education, 2001
Focuses on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2000 process-oriented standards of problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication, connections, and representation as providing a framework for using the multiple intelligences that children bring to mathematics learning. Presents ideas for mathematics lessons and activities to…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Children, Class Activities, Educational Practices
Multiple Intelligences in Action.
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Campbell, Bruce – Childhood Education, 1992
Describes the investigation of the effects of a four-step model program used with third through fifth grade students to implement Gardener's concepts of seven human intelligences--linguistic, logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, musical, kinesthetic, intrapersonal, and interpersonal intelligence--into daily learning. (BB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Learning How to Learn: The Arts as Core in an Emergent Curriculum.
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Wright, Susan – Childhood Education, 1997
Argues that the arts provide a powerful means with which to promote future-oriented learning because they involve nonverbal, symbolic ways of knowing, thinking and communicating. Suggests that the arts in the emergent curriculum promote central education skills of discovery, pursuit, self-awareness, personal communication, social interaction,…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Education
Multiple Intelligences, Culture and Equitable Learning.
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Reiff, Judith C. – Childhood Education, 1997
Examines the application of Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences at the middle school level. Suggests that planning, teaching and assessment should be based upon learner's individual needs and intelligences, aiming to help develop particular intelligences and strengthen the existing ones. Proposes several learning activities for…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style