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Multiple intelligences
The big picture
Standard IQ tests measure numeracy, verbal and non-verbal reasoning and yet many people who would achieve low scores in an IQ test are extremely successful in life. Harvard Professor Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences suggests that there are at least nine forms of intelligence and an understanding of our own can help us make the best choices to be successful.
Gardner’s work flew in the face of established thinking about children’s development, arguing that a child may at any single time be in very different stages in the development of different ‘intelligences’. Gardner initially listed seven ‘intelligences’ and the list was extended later.
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