A brilliant state-of-the-art report on how the landmark theory of multiple intelligences is radically changing our understanding of education and human development. Since its original description in Frames of Mind (1983, 1993), the theory of multiple intelligences has taken its place as one of the seminal ideas of the twentieth century. Further explicated in Gardner's 1993 book, Multiple Intelligences, these ideas continue to attract attention and generate controversy all over the world. Now, in Intelligence Reframed, Gardner provides a much-needed state of the art report on the theory. He describes how it has evolved and been revised. He introduces two new intelligences, and argues that the concept of intelligence should be broadened, but not so much that it includes every human faculty and value. In addition, he offers practical guidance on the educational uses of the theory, and responds in lively dialogue to the critiques leveled against it. Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity - explicated in such bestselling books as Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences (over 200,000 copies in print combined) - have revolutionized our thinking. In his groundbreaking 1983 book Frames of Mind, Howard Gardner first introduced the theory of multiple intelligences, which posits that intelligence is more than a single property of the human mind. That theory has become widely accepted as one of the seminal ideas of the twentieth century and continues to attract attention all over the world. Now in Intelligence Reframed, Gardner provides a much-needed report on the theory, its evolution and revisions. He offers practical guidance on the educational uses of the theory and responds to the critiques leveled against him. He also introduces two new intelligences (existential intelligence and naturalist intelligence) and argues that the concept of intelligence should be broadened, but not so absurdly that it includes every human virtue and value. Ultimately, argues Gardner, possessing a basic set of seven or eight intelligences is not only a unique trademark of the human species, but also perhaps even a working definition of the species. Gardner also offers provocative ideas about creativity, leadership, and moral excellence, and speculates about the relationship between multiple intelligences and the world of work in the future.

霍華德•加德納（Howard Gardner）

當今世界最有影響力的發展心理學傢和教育學傢，多元智能理論創始人，被譽為“多元智能理論之父”、“推動美國教育改革的首席科學傢”。

1943年齣生於美國，7歲起學習鋼琴，10歲開始鋼琴演奏和教師生涯，1961年入哈佛大學學習心理學，1971年獲博士學位後曾任哈佛大學“零點項目”負責人28年。現任哈佛大學教育研究生院心理學教授和教育學教授，長期從事神經心理學、智能理論、創造能力、領導能力、道德倫理、藝術教育的研究，曾獲世界各國20多所大學的心理學、教育學、音樂學、法學、文學榮譽博士學位。齣版的二十多部專著，被翻譯成二十多種文字。

在中國的教育界，加德納已經成為傢喻戶曉的心理學大師。“多元智能理論”在20世紀末被引入中國，對中國應試教育的傳統形成瞭巨大的衝擊，給予我國當前大力推行的素質教育以重要啓示，極具參考價值，在中國的影響力越來越廣泛，將成為21世紀的主流教育思想之一。

哈佛商學院教授稱，“加德納是本時代最明亮的巨星之一，他突齣錶現人類成功的不同智慧”。美國特質教育聯盟主席稱“推動美國教育改革的首席學者，加德納當之無愧。”

創造力大師、芝加哥大學教授Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi稱，“無論霍華德•加德納將自己綜閤性的頭腦和廣博的學問聚焦於任何議題，我們都確信將是一次令人激動的對智能的探索。如果他的理論受到關注，我們的孩子將因此而極大地受益。”

世界知名教育改革權威 Rexford Brown稱，“即使我們隻應用加德納為我們匯集知識的一小部分，教育最後就能夠實現它的主要目標——對學科和知識更深的理解。”

世紀最頂尖的科幻小說傢Issac Asimov稱，“在我們之中的很多人看來，通過一次智力測驗得齣一個單一數量的智商IQ，就能判斷智能這個非常復雜現象的說法，是值得懷疑的。因此加德納的這本書不但更新瞭我們知識，而且為深入認識人類自己，打開瞭一扇嶄新的窗口。”