Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Paperback – March 29, 2011

Good

Great textbook

The idea of multiple intelligence is incredible! Reading it, I was able to see my giftedness is mathematical-logical. I also realized to be successful, people triangulate through their top three or so intelligences. Just one alone isn’t enough to be successful in the world. And knowing the intelligences, you can look at individuals and see the ones they’re good at and triangulated through.Having said that, it’s an extremely dull read. Wish he would re-write the book for mass consumption. 20% of the book has the value. I’m going to see his other books and see if he’s written one focused just on understanding the intelligences better rather than all this other stuff that’s in this book. I just want to go deep on the intelligences, and get a better understanding of them.

This book describes the theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) and was written in 1983 by its developer: Howard Gardner. According to him, there is no such concept as 'intelligence' but many fields in which you can be more or less intelligent. These 'intelligences' are basically seven: linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic and personal. Each of them is developed to a certain degree in all human beings, except in those who are impaired due to an accident or a genetic disease. And these are particularly the cases that Gardner uses to prove his theory, by gathering data of individuals that, for example, in spite of being autistic, show an incredible musical talent or those individuals with meager abilities in most areas but display from early childhood an ability to calculate very rapidly and accurately.Of course that this approach challenges the widely accepted (in the US mostly) IQ scores, because it shows that these tests focus only in one of the multiple intelligences,logical-mathematical in this case, and not all. So, they reach to a wrong conclusion of the individual's potential.

Long but- worth it

Great company to my heart of hearts! A book to hold onto for so many reasons that makes sense of FRAMES OF MINDS in my world!

FRAMES OF MIND the theory of multiple intelligences by the author Howard Garner is a book people need to read to reconize the differents ability or IQ ,and the bodily languages from people or them. It deserve 5 stars.

The concepts in the book I agree with, but the vocabulary and writing style is awful. "Overly complicated and unnecessarily confusing.." is how I would describe trying to read this book. The concepts and ideas are not confusing, but the choice of vocabulary used in the book makes no sense. For example, "..search for an essence of humanity has led, with seeming ineluctability, to a focus...". This is a good example of how the entire book reads and feels like the author was writing out of a thesaurus.Unrelated but the book arrived damaged due to poor packaging (soft envelope with no padding), so, overall awful experience with this book. I hope to find a more accessible version of the concepts.