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Extraordinary Minds: Portraits of Exceptional Individuals and an Examination of Our Extraordinariness (Master Minds S.) - Hardcover
A leading psychologist explres what the development of extraordinary figures (Mozart, Freud, Woolf and Ghandi) can tell us of human capabilties and the development of our own minds. Gardner weaves together recent research in cognitive science, child development and psychology, in a book that is both intellectually interesting and provocative, but also makes the reader consider his own life and mind, in an effective and attractive crossover of serious and popular psychology.
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Howard Gardner's work has concentrated on the varieties of human intelligence, a rejection of simplistic models that rely on IQ tests, and the nature of human genius. In this book, he brings together these concerns to explore the development of human intelligence and creativity in children and how the childhoods and lives of four exceptional individuals (Mozart, Freud, Virginia Woolf and Mahatma Gandhi) can show us both how exceptional achievement can emerge and how we can all learn from such exmapled in understanding the potential of ordinary minds, whether our own or those of our children.
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Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- PublisherW&N
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0297819518
- ISBN 13 9780297819516
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