{"product_id":"the-essential-howard-gardner-on-mind_9780807769362","title":"The Essential Howard Gardner on Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e“An essential resource for tracking a legendary career.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Sherry Turkle, MIT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Read this book to know the work that built the field, and also to inspire generative reflections on what should come next.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, USC Rossier\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Howard Gardner has long been one of our most influential thinkers about cognitive science, development, and education. This collection captures his distinguished career exceptionally well.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Alison Gopnik, UC Berkeley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor over half a century, Howard Gardner has studied the mind in its various shapes, forms, and operations, culminating in his best-known work, the theory of multiple intelligences. \u003cb\u003eThis volume compiles his most compelling essays on the conduct, contours, and complexity of the human mind\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter introducing the thinkers who had the greatest influence on him, Gardner traces the multiple aspects of mind that he has illuminated: the development of cognition, notably in the arts; the breakdown of cognition under condition of brain damage; a probing examination of human cognition at its highest levels, including creativity, leadership, artistry, and “good work” (work that is excellent, engaging, and ethical) in the professions; and, most recently, our extraordinary synthesizing capacities as human beings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis fascinating book\u003c\/b\u003e captures in one place the long and compelling arc of a major scholar’s contribution to understanding intelligence, thinking, and the development of the range of cognitive strengths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook Features:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePresents Howard Gardner’s essential essays on mind over the course of his long and distinguished career.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTraces the influences on Gardner’s own thinking, among them psychologists Jean Piaget and Jerome Bruner, philosophers Susanne Langer and Nelson Goodman, neurologist Norman Geschwind, and anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShows how an understanding of human cognitive capacities and processes manifests itself in several domains, such as artistry, leadership, creativity, and excellence in the professions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Howard Gardner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43037199990886,"sku":"9780807769362","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/4051\/5174\/files\/9780807769362.jpg?v=1771608206","url":"https:\/\/www.tcpress.com\/products\/the-essential-howard-gardner-on-mind_9780807769362","provider":"Teachers College Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}