| Multiple Intelligences
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Howard Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence
which suggests that we have multiple intelligences, or abilities
or skills, rather than one general intellectual ability. He lists
the following seven intelligences:
| INTELLIGENCE |
POSSIBLE CAREERS |
COMPONENTS |
| 1. Logical/mathematical |
Mathematician or statistician |
These people have the
ability to work with numerical patterns, and handle long chains
of reasoning |
| 2.
Linguistic |
Journalist, author,
poet |
These people display
a sensitivity to the different functions of language and the
meanings of words. |
| 3. Musical |
Composer, musician |
These people display
and ability to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitch and timbre;
and an appreciation of the forms of musical expressiveness. |
| 4. Spatial |
Navigator, sculptor |
These people display
an ability to perceive the visual-spatial world accurately. |
| 5.Bodliy / Kinesthetic |
Dancer, sportsman / sportswoman |
These people display an ability
to control body movements and to handle objects skillfully |
| 6. Interpersonal |
Sales, marketing, psychologist/counsellor |
These people display an ability
to respond appropriately to the moods, character, motivations
and desires of other people |
| 7. Intrapersonal |
Person with detailed, accurate self-knowledge |
Access to one’s own feelings and
the ability to discriminate among them and draw upon them to
guide behaviour; knowledge of one’s own strengths, weaknesses,
desires and intelligences. |
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