The 12 Types of Intelligence (and Counting)
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Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century (1999), the first of which he believes should be added to the basic seven: (1) naturalist intelligence, as an ability to draw upon features of the natural environment, (2) and existential intelligence, which signals human concerns with ultimate issues and the nature of existence.12
... See moreHoward Gardner in his famous Frames of Mind, the Theory of Multiple Intelligences (1983) identifies seven main modes of learning as (1) linguistic, (2) logical-mathematical, (3) bodily kinesthetic, (4) spatial-visual, (5) musical, (6) interpersonal, and (7) intrapersonal.
General (non-narrow) intelligence of the sort we all display daily is not an algorithm running in our heads, but calls on the entire cultural, historical, and social context within which we think and act in the world.
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