Disciplined Mind

What All Students Should Understand

Howard Gardner

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781982142216
• eBook ISBN:
  9781982176952
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

This brilliant and revolutionary theory of multiple intelligences reexamines the goals of education to support a more educated society for future generations. Howard Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences has been hailed as perhaps the most profound insight into education since the work of Jerome Bruner, Jean Piaget, and even John Dewey. Here, in The Disciplined Mind, Garner pulls together the threads of his previous works and looks beyond such issues as charters, vouchers, unions, and affirmative action in order to explore the larger questions of what constitutes an educated person and how this can be achieved for all students. Gardner eloquently argues that the purpose of K–12 education should be to enhance students' deep understanding of the truth (and falsity), beauty (and ugliness), and goodness (and evil) as defined by their various cultures.By exploring the theory of evolution, the music of Mozart, and the lessons of the Holocaust as a set of examples that illuminates the nature of truth, beauty, and morality, The Disciplined Mind envisions how younger generations will rise to the challenges of the future—while preserving the traditional goals of a "humane" education. Gardner's ultimate goal is the creation of an educated generation that understands the physical, biological, and societal world in their own personal context as well as in a broader world view.But even as Gardner persuasively argues the merits of his approach, he recognizes the difficulty of developing one universal, ideal form of education. In an effort to reconcile conflicting educational viewpoints, he proposes the creation of six different educational pathways that, when taken together, can satisfy people's concern for student learning and their widely divergent views about knowledge and understanding overall.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Chapter 1: A Personal Introduction: An Education for all Human Beings
• Chapter 2: Educational Constants
• Chapter 3: Education in the Future
• Chapter 4: Perspectives of Mind and Brain
• Chapter 5: How Cultures Educate
• Chapter 6: Designing Education for Understanding
• Chapter 7: Disciplined Approaches
• Chapter 8: Close Looks
• Chapter 9: “Multiple Intelligences” Approaches to Understanding
• Chapter 10: Getting There
• Chapter 11: In Closing
• Appendix: “The Trio of Colliding Agendas”
• About the Author
• References
• Name Index
• Subject Index
• Copyright