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Posted 11-20-00
CLEVELAND -- Howard Gardner, an expert in human development and psychology at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, will be the speaker for the annual Sterling McMillan Lecture, which the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) hosts at Case Western Reserve University. The event begins at noon Thursday, November 30 in Strosacker Auditorium.
Gardner is the author of Multiple Intelligences and The Disciplined Mind. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that is only a single human intelligence which standard psychological measuring tools can assess.
During the past decade, he and colleagues at Harvard's Project Zero have been working on the design of performance-based assessments, education for understanding, and the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curricula, instruction, and assessment.
Project Zero is Project Zero is an educational research group at Harvard's Graduate School of Education which seeks to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels.