Howard Gardner

Howard Gardner talks about what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled” and how life for the younger generation differs from life before the digital era. The App Generation: How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World discusses the drawbacks of apps – that they may foreclose a sense of identity, encourage superficial relations with others, and stunt creative imagination – as well as their benefits – that they can promote a strong sense of identity, allow deep relationships, and stimulate creativity. 

Howard Gardner, who developed the theory of multiple intelligences, joins Kurt and Sarah Jones on stage for a session of free advice.

Harvard education professor, recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and author of the newly reissued Creating Minds and Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership, Howard Gardner revisits his work on multiple intelligences in creativity and leadership. 

Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard, recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and author of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-First Century, talks about how to reframe classic virtues in the digital age.

Frank Rich, New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, and Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard, director of the Harvard Good Work Project and author of Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet, talk about the lure of Wall Street and the potential for a counter ...

Howard Gardner, who developed the theory of multiple intelligences, joins Kurt and Sarah on stage for a session of free advice. He analyzes audience members’ big life-changing moments, and gets Sarah to fess up about how her impersonation skills came in handy when playing hooky from ...

Howard Gardner, who developed the theory of multiple intelligences, joins Kurt and Sarah Jones on stage for a session of free advice. He analyzes audience members’ big life-changing moments, and gets Sarah to fess up about how her impersonation skills came in ...

Cognitive researchers have been creating ways to define and measure human intelligence for more than a century, sparking plenty of controversy along the way. Professor Howard Gardner of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education joins us today to answer your questions about the history and practice of IQ testing, the ...

Howard Gardner, professor of cognition and education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences. In his new book, Five Minds for the Future (Harvard Business School Press, 2007), he looks at the kind of intelligence needed to succeed in business in ...