Responsibility at Work *NEW*
Jossey-Bass

Filled with original essays by Howard Gardner,
William Damon, Mihaly Csikszenthmihalyi, and
Jeanne Nakamura and based on a large-scale
research project, the GoodWork® Project,
Responsibility at Work reflects the information
gleaned from in-depth interviews with more
than 1,200 people from nine different
professions—journalism, genetics, theatre,
higher education, philanthropy, law, medicine,
business, and pre-collegiate education. The
book reveals how motivation, culture, and
professional norms can intersect to produce
work that is personally, socially, and
economically beneficial. 

At the heart of the study is the revelation that
the key to good work is responsilibilty—taking
ownership for one’s work and its wider impact.

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Five Minds for the Future *NEW*
Harvard Business School Press

Gardner's newest book, Five Minds for the
Future outlines the specific cognitive abilities
that will be sought and cultivated by leaders
in the years ahead.

They include:

• The Disciplinary Mind: the mastery of
  major schools of thought, including
  science, mathematics, and history, and of
  at least one professional craft.
  
  
• The Synthesizing Mind: the ability to
  integrate ideas from different disciplines
  or spheres into a coherent whole and to
  communicate that integration to others.
  
  
• The Creating Mind: the capacity to
  uncover and clarify new problems,
  questions and phenomena.
  
  
• The Respectful Mind: awareness of and
  appreciation for differences among
  human beings and human groups.
  
  
• The Ethical Mind: fulfillment of one's
  responsibilities as a worker and as a
  citizen.

In the book, Gardner draws from a wealth of
diverse examples to illuminate these ideas,
designed to inspire lifelong learning and also to
provide valuable insights for those charged
with training and developing organizational
leaders.

Drawing on decades of cognitive research and
rich examples from history, politics, business,
science, and the arts, Gardner writes for
professionals, teachers, parents, political
and business leaders, trainers, and all who
prize the cognitive skills at a premium for
tomorrow.

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Howard Gardner Under Fire
Edited by Jeffrey Schaler
Open Court Press

In Howard Gardner Under Fire, leading experts who disagree with Gardner on specific issues explain their reasons, with no holds barred, and Gardner replies cogently and pungently to each one of them.

At the forefront of the debate is Gardner's famous theory of Multiple Intelligences. According to Gardner, intelligence can take the following forms:

• Linguistic Intelligence
• Musical Intelligence
• Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
• Spatial Intelligence
• Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
• Interpersonal Intelligence
• Intrapersonal Intelligence
• Naturalist Intelligence

The following is a list of Gardner's critics and
the title of their essay from the books table
of contents.

Development and Education
1) What Develops (and How?) - Deanna Kuhn
2) Becoming Responsible for Who We Are: The trouble with Traits - David R. Olsen

Multiple Intelligences
3) Multiple Invalidities - John White
4) Geocentric Theory: A Valid Alternative to Gardner's Theory of Intelligence - Nathan Brody
5) Is the Ability to Make a Bacon Sandwich a Mark of Intelligence?, and Other Issues: Some Reflections on Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences - Susan M. Barnett, Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams
6) On Spirituality - T.M. Luhrmann

Case Studies
7) Creativity in Creating Minds - Dean Keith Simonton
8) Creativity Is Always Personal and Only
Sometimes Social - Mark A. Runco
9) Gardner on Leadership - Robert Spillane

Good Work
10) The Second Gardner's Late Shift: From Psychology to Outer Space? - Carlos Vasco
11) Changing Minds About GoodWork - Anna Craft

Arts and Education
12) Artful Practice: A Reflexive Analysis - Graeme Sullivan
13) Considering the U-Curve - David Pariser

Replies to My Critics - Howard Gardner

These exchanges are preceded by A Blessing of
Influences, an autobiographical essay, which
includes the following sections:

• Searching for the Right Theme
• My Contributions
• Childhood
• Cambridge
• Professional Development & Professional
  Angst
• Peers, Near Peers & Students
• True Angels
• Disappointmets, Duds, and Dead Ends
• Beyond Influences: Going My Own Way
• Friends
• Family and Families

An excerpt of A Blessing of Influences is posted
here (in Adobe PDF) for interested readers.

Jeffrey A. Schaler is a psychologist, psychotherapist, teacher, and writer. His publications include Szasz Under Fire, the first volume in the Under Fire series; Addiction is a Choice, which became the centerpiece of a controversial John Stossel TV documentary; Drugs: Should We Legalize, Decriminalize, or Deregulate? and Smoking: Who Has the Right?

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M.I. - New Horizons * NEW *
Basic Books

Gardner's seminal 1993 account of the practical applications of Multiple Intelligences theory is now completely updated and expanded to reflect the latest developments in the field

Howard Gardner's brilliant conception of individual competence has changed the face of education in the twenty-three years since the publication of his classic work, Frames of Mind. Since then thousands of educators, parents, and researchers have explored the practical implications and applications of Multiple Intelligences theory--the powerful notion that there are separate human capacities, ranging from musical intelligence to the intelligence involved in self-understanding.

The first decade of research on MI theory and practice was reported in the 1993 edition of Multiple Intelligences. This new edition covers all developments since then and stands as the most thorough and up-to-date account of MI available anywhere. Completely revised throughout, it features new material on global applications and on MI in the workplace, an assessment of MI practice in the current conservative educational climate, new evidence about brain functioning, and much more.

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Development and Education of the Mind
Taylor & Routeledge

In the World Library of Educationalists series,
international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces- extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions--so the work can read them in a single manageable volume.
Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands of their work and see their contribution to the development of a field
.
A developmental psychologist by training, Howard Gardner has spent the last 30 years researching, thinking and writing about the development and education of the
mind. He has contributed over 30 years researching, thinking and writing about the development and education of the mind. He has contributed over 30 books and 700 articles to the field. He is best known for his critique of
the notion that intelligence is one single human
intelligence that can be assessed through psychometric tests. Instead Gardner developed the theory of "multiple intelligence" which states that an individual has eight relatively autonomous intelligence:

· Language
· Music
· Emotional
· Logical-mathematical
· Spatial
· Kinesthetic
· Creative
· Interpersonal (understanding oneself)

This theory has proved popular, particularly with those who see the IQ testing a relatively narrow set of abilities.

In this book, he brings together over 20 of his key writings in one place. The book begins with a specially written Introduction, which gives an overview of Howard's career and contextualizes his selection in this book. Through his selection we can see the development of his thinking as
well as the development of the field. This is the only book that offers this insight into his great scholar's work.

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