Howard Gardner.

This is to share some thoughts on Howard Gardner from his recent paper 'Multiple lenses on the mind' in International Perspectives on Education, edited by Chau Meng Huat and Trevor Kerry (Continuum). He summarised his multiple intelligences as 8 (or 9 - his words, the ninth being existential/spiritual. The eight are: linguistic, logical mathematical, musical, spacial, bodily kinaesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist. This model is to recognise diversity and to escape from the IQ test model of an umbrella intelligence.

On 'Changing Minds' (and see the book of that name), he lists seven levers of mind changing: reason,

research,
resonance,
redescription,
rewards and resources,
real world events, and
resistances overcome.

On 'Five Minds for the Future', he lists

the disciplined mind
the synthesizing mind
the creative mind
the respectful mind and
the ethical mind.

The final two of these he suggests are of greatest value.

He ends with Margaret Mead's dictum, "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, its the only thing that ever has."