Multiple Intelligences: Ways of Knowing

Length: about 3-5 typed pages

By the time you are ready to start drafting this essay, you will have read and discussed Gardner’s essay, Multiple Intelligences. You will have brainstormed ideas about how this theory applies to your own experience and what the implications might be in understanding ourselves as learners.

For this assignment, you will write an essay in which you make an argument about yourself in relation to one or two of the intelligences Gardner describes in his article. (I like to think of intelligences as ways we experience the world, or ways of knowing.)

Requirements:

1. You will need to use examples from Gardner’s article to define and explain his theory and the intelligences that you are discussing specifically. (You do not need to describe or define every intelligence in his theory; a brief overall summary will do.) (Be sure to cite material from the reading.)

1. You will need to use specific examples from your experience, or from a defining moment, that supports your claim about yourself.