Inaugural Jacob K. Javits Foundation Lecture Features Multiple Intelligences Theorist Howard Gardner

Howard Gardner, who developed the theory of multiple intelligences, will deliver the inaugural Jacob K. Javits Lecture on Tues., Oct. 30, 5 p.m. at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place).

The lecture, “From Multiple Intelligences to Future Minds,” is sponsored by NYU and the Jacob K. Javits Foundation. Gardner is the Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professor at NYU.

As a developmental and cognitive psychologist with expertise in neuropsychology, Gardner developed the theory of multiple intelligences in the early 1980s. The interest shown by educators in this work stimulated him to become involved in educational reform in the United States and abroad. In more recent work, Gardner has addressed issues of policy, transitioning his scholarship from “how things are” to “how things ought to be.” He will describe the five kinds of minds—disciplined, synthesizing, creating, respectful, and ethical—that need to be cultivated in the future. The evening will include remarks by NYU President John Sexton and Marcelo Suàrez-Orozco, the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor for Globalization and Immigration Studies at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

The event is free and open to the public but an RSVP is required. For more information, call 212-998-2264.