Howard Gardner is among the most important cited and studied scholars of our time. Inside these new collections, you’ll find what he believes to be his “essential” work.
The Essential Howard Gardner on Education is the single most comprehensive survey of Howard Gardner’s writing and thinking about education. In this compelling collection, Gardner explores his vast contributions to our understanding of learning and how to create environments that support growth in all learners across their lifespans. He lays out his principal ideas about creating purposeful curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment, ideas developed at Harvard Project Zero, as well as in collaborations with educators from around the world, ranging from preschools in Reggio Emilia (Italy) to art classes in China. Gardner includes a timely focus on education in a global era, influenced by continuing technological innovations, yet still grounded in the pursuit of fundamental human values.
In The Essential Howard Gardner on Mind, Gardner compiles his most compelling essays on the conduct, contours, and complexity of the human mind. Gardner first introduces the thinkers who had the greatest influence on him, including Jean Piaget and Jerome Bruner, philosophers Susanne Langer and Nelson Goodman, neurologist Norman Geschwind, and anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. He traces the multiple aspects of mind that he has illuminated: the development of cognition; the breakdown of cognition under condition of brain damage; a probing examination of human cognition at its highest levels, including creativity, leadership, artistry, and “good work” in the professions; and, most recently, our extraordinary synthesizing capacities as human beings.
