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Taking a multiple intelligences (MI) perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2017

Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner*
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Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Longfellow Hall 235, Cambridge, MA 02138 hgasst@gse.harvard.edu http://multipleintelligencesoasis.org/
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Abstract

The theory of multiple intelligences (MI) seeks to describe and encompass the range of human cognitive capacities. In challenging the concept of general intelligence, we can apply an MI perspective that may provide a more useful approach to cognitive differences within and across species.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e203
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