Harvard Professor to Talk About Multiple Intelligences and ‘Good Work’ at Annual Curtis Lecture March 21 at UA

TUSCALOOSA, Ala — Dr. Howard Gardner of Harvard University, one of the world’s foremost education scholars on human intelligence, will present “From Multiple Intelligences to Good Work” for the 2002 James P. Curtis Distinguished Lecture Thursday, March 21, at 7 p.m. in Sellers Auditorium at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.

Gardner, the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard, is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences which critiques the notion that there is only a single human intelligence. This theory was detailed in his 1983 book, “Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences.”

For the past 15 years, Gardner has been conducting research through Harvard’s “Project Zero,” to design performance-based assessments, education for understanding, and the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and assessment. For more than 34 years Project Zero has investigated the development of learning processes in children, adults and organizations.

Gardner has published 19 books and hundreds of articles about arts in education, assessment, early childhood and child development, intelligence, neuroscience, psychology, and reform issues. His recent books include “The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, the K-12 Education that Every Child Deserves,” “Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century” and “Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet.”

Gardner also serves as an adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard and adjunct research professor of neurology at Boston University’s School of Medicine.

This presentation is sponsored by the UA College of Education in conjunction with its alumni association, the Capstone College of Education Society. Admission is free and the general public is invited to attend. Any participant currently employed as a teacher will receive one hour of professional development.

Also on Thursday, Gardner will conduct two seminars for UA College of Education graduate students and faculty. The 10 a.m. seminar will focus on multiple intelligences; while the 3 p.m. seminar will focus on disciplinary and interdisciplinary understanding.

For more information, contact at Alexia M. Kartis, Capstone College of Education Society Director, at 205/348-6881.