multiple intelligences

Discusses the need for educational reform, focusing on the content of an education and how it should be presented, mastered, put to use, and passed along; and uses the three examples of the theory of evolution, the music of Mozart, and the Holocaust to explore the author's call for an educational system that pursues truth, beauty, and morality.

Offers an overview of the theory of multiple intelligences and includes strategies for using it in adult literacy classrooms.

The originator of multiple intelligences theory defines a complete K-12 education as one that enhances the understanding of truth, beauty, and morality and suggests that it be taught through the theory of evolution, the music of Mozart, and the lessons of the Holocaust.

Offers practical classroom applications of the theory of multiple intelligences, based upon the premise that students must have opportunities for the creative exploration of their individual interests and talents while also learning valued skills and concepts through multimodal means.

Includes step-by-step explanations and examples for incorporating multiple intelligence instruction into the elementary through high school classroom.

Explains what the seven types of intelligence are and presents fifty activities designed to help children develop them; covers visual/spatial, verbal/linguistic, musical, kinesthetic, logical/mathematical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal intelligence.