Howard Gardner to Give Brodie Family Lecture September 30

Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner

Story posted September 24, 2004

Howard Gardner, a MacArthur prize winner and professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, will deliver the talk "Good Work in Education" at this year's Brodie Family Lecture at 7 p.m., Thursday, September 30, in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center.

Gardner is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard psychometric instruments. The application of this theory is to be found in most K-12 schools in this country.

During the past two decades Gardner and colleagues at Project Zero have been working on the design of performance-based assessments; education for understanding; the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and assessment; and the nature of interdisciplinary efforts in education.

In recent years, in collaboration with psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon, Gardner has embarked on a study of GoodWork - the studies of outstanding leaders in several professions, including journalism, law, science, theater, and philanthropy.

Gardner is the author of 20 books translated into 21 languages, and several hundred articles. His books include Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet (2001) and The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, the K-12 Education that Every Child Deserves (2000).

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds positions as adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University, adjunct professor of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and senior director of Harvard Project Zero.

Among his numerous honors, he received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in Education, and in 2000 he received a fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has received honorary degrees from 20 colleges and universities, including institutions in Ireland, Italy and Israel.

Gardner's talk is sponsored by the Brodie Family Lecture Fund, the departments of education, music, art, athletics, psychology, and theater and dance, the counseling service, the dean of student affairs office, the concerts and lectures committee, and the Baldwin Center for Learning and Teaching.

The Brodie Family Lecture Fund was established in 1997 by Theodore H. Brodie '52, an overseer of the College from 1983-1995. The fund is used to bring to campus at least once a year a speaker of note in the field of education, to deliver a message on the subjects of problems and practices of teaching and learning.

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