Gardner’s theory and its significance Gardner defines intelligence as “the capacity to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural setting” (Gardner & Hatch‚ 1989) (Alexander‚ Clugston‚ & Tice‚ 2009‚ Chapter 2.2). Intelligence is generally regarding someone who solves problems logically and is a very acute scholar. Through his research‚ Dr. Gardner found that every person can solve problems logically and be an acute scholar‚ if only the problem at hand
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Howard Gardner was born on July 11‚ 1943 in Scranton‚ Pennsylvania. His parents were refugees from the period of the Nazis‚ in Germany. As a child he loved music‚ he later became a great pianist. As a young man he enrolled at Harvard University. Gardner started to study other careers but ended getting inspired by the works of Jean Piaget to study developmental psychology. He is married to Ellen Winner‚ a developmental psychologist who teaches at Boston College‚ and they have four children together
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allowed researchers to observe what is the genuine reaction and behaviour of the infant or child when the carer is absent. When I compare the attachment theory with the developmental theories taught in class there are three theories (Erikson‚ Piaget‚ and Kohlberg) which begins the studies at the early childhood. Kohlberg’s work is similar to Piaget’s earlier work. Whereas‚ Piaget analysed the cognitive/ moral development. Kohlberg developed the idea that moral reasoning‚ has six identifiable developmental
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Irena Israilova Understanding Children’s Development The functional and structural approaches to play are very interesting because they did not have exact definition for the functional approach to play. It being said‚ the functional approach to play would be considered a child trying to evoke an action‚ but it is not then considered play‚ therefore the concept was difficult to let on. The structural approach to play was a lot more understandable‚ that if a child expresses an action in repetition
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Gardner’s Theory Throughout history‚ people have defined someone who is intelligent as an individual who can solve problems and think critically. Gardner saw that in a different way‚ he saw that learning was different for each individual. He believed that everyone was capable of learning. In His theory he says that we all have varied intelligence strengths and weaknesses Gardner’s seven intelligent are musical‚ bodily-kinesthetic‚ logical-mathematical‚ linguistic‚ spatial‚ interpersonal‚ and intrapersonal
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Intelligence‚ the ability to solve a problem‚ comes to different people in many different ways. The gateway or multiple intelligences to solving these problems is what Gardner is trying to explain. Gardner is simply stating that different people learn in different ways. The significance of this is that if you are learning something one way and don’t quite get it then there are other options to learning the exact same thing. We all have strengths and weaknesses when it comes to learning and with
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Howard Gardner distinguishes eight domains of ability in his theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI). Briefly discuss each of these intelligences and explain how you will apply any four of the intelligences to your classroom. Howard Gardner believed that intelligence was made up of multiple components. He distinguished between eight different types of intelligences‚ and maintained that they are independent of each other. Each separate system of intelligence can interact with others to produce
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Jean Piaget was born in Neuchâtel‚ Switzerland on August 9‚ 1896. He was the first child of Arthur and Rebecca Piaget. Jean began showing an interest in the natural sciences at a very early age. By age 11‚ he had already started his career as a researcher by writing a short paper on an albino sparrow. He was also very interested in mollusks and by the time he was a teen‚ his papers on mollusks were being widely published. He continued to study the natural sciences and received his Ph.D. in Zoology
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development is the beginning to the ability to think and understand. Cognitive development focuses on child’s development of information processing‚ conceptual resources‚ perpetual skill‚ language learning‚ and other aspects of brain development. Piaget has four stages to his theory: Sensorimotor‚ preoperational‚ concrete operational‚ and formal operational. Much of the research has gone into understanding how a child imagines the world. In Piaget’s view‚ early cognitive development includes processes
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to assist and support children’s early cognitive development‚ teachers apply the ideas of educational theorists such as Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky in teaching. Review of Literature Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky are two of the most influential theorists of cognitive development. The ‘Stage-based theory of cognitive development’ from Jean Piaget explores the sequential development of thinking process through a series of stages include sensorimotor stage for births to age
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