Howard Gardner - Future Minds
In this lecture series, filmed at the RSA in London, Harvard professor Howard Gardener examines the mental capacities needed for the future in a globalised world.
The kinds of minds he suggests should be cultivated are three cognitive ones: the disciplined mind, the synthesizing mind and the creating mind, and two that deal with the human sphere: the respectful mind and the ethical mind. Gardener discusses how these can be best nurtured, and points out some of the inevitable tensions created between them.
After the lecture a group of teachers discuss how these ideas are used in practice in the classroom today.
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Facebookalscolari on 07 December 2009
Excellent conference. I'm more interested in respectful and ethical minds: sinthesized contents are actual foundations f ...
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- Duration: 60:00 minutes
- Published: 06 September 2006
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RSA Lectures Listen to Stephen Heppell's lecture on the 2016 classroom, or scroll down to browse through the text, slides and audio of earlier lecture subjects
Howard Gardner Originator of multiple intelligences theory Howard Gardner's website with information on his teachings
BBC News: What Types of Minds to Nurture? The BBC's Mike Baker examines how the theory of the five intelligences apply to the realities of our education system
Cornerstone: The Five Minds for the Future This summary of Professor Gardner's theories contains a colourful concept map of the five minds, useful for visual learners
Harvard Graduate School of Economics: Project Zero Read about Project Zero, another of Professor Gardner's areas of focus, concerned with understanding and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts
Multiple Intelligences: Lesson Ideas A list of activities for school subjects for each of seven types of intelligence, from verbal/linguistic to intrapersonal and from history to fine arts
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respectful and ethical mind7 December 2009 - 13:38Excellent conference. I'm more interested in respectful and ethical minds: sinthesized contents are actual foundations for successful school management and positive approaches for a valuable and consistent teaching plan
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Future Minds13 April 2009 - 21:04I really enjoyed the video ,especially I was preparing for a workshop onGardner's multiple Intelligences .
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good and imporant15 September 2008 - 20:53This video has helped me much to understand and to perceive all the various senses we have and how to use and improve them. Thank you very much
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On "Five Minds for the Future"--What applicable ideals!31 January 2008 - 22:13Gardner's book reminds us of the ideals that higher education needs to bring back and foster. It's inspiring and refreshing to see these 5 idealistic qualities of the mind emphasized .
I feel in his Disciplined Mind, Gardner stresses a mind that is knowledgeable through consistent focused learning and training in a discipline. In his Synthesizing Mind, he stresses a mind that is cable of organizing and connecting the most relevant info. In his Creating Mind, he stresses a positively productive mind (different from non-productive fantasy or imagination), a mind capable of creating new products and new ideas/ways to improve things.
Still, Gardner's Respecting Mind and Ethical Mind that stress moral values and professional responsibilities are of the utmost importance. These two are what we all know well but often neglect. Indeed, if we are willing to respect people different from us, we would want to understand them and learn from them, way beyond tolerating them. If we all have a strong moral and professional conscience, we would want to do "Good Work" and contribute to the global peace and prosperity. As we all know, the value of 'respect' is a universal ideal: embodied in The Golden Rule in the west and in Confucianism in the east for thousands of years.
Gardner's book gives good people hope.
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This was an excellent20 December 2007 - 18:15This was an excellent conference and subsequent discussion which is particularly relevant to the transformation agenda and Building Schools for the Future.
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Five Minds for the future by Howard Gardner17 November 2007 - 11:25Excelent! we must think about some methodologies to make this acctually happens. Thank You!
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Howard Gardner's Future Minds10 April 2007 - 22:28Inspiring lecture! Beautifully expressed and convincing. Will surely try to implement these 'future minds' in my classroom. Well done, Howard Gardner.
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Re : Very interesting19 June 2007 - 17:42Very, very interesting this conference, it helps me to understand and view the future in other way, thanks Howard Gardner.
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