Howard Gardner to Explore ‘Good Work in the Global Era’ as NYU’s Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professor

Howard Gardner, a developmental and cognitive psychologist best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, has been appointed the first Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professor at NYU. Gardner begins his appointment this fall in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, where he will teach two graduate level seminars. One course, “Good Work in the Global Era,” co-taught with Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, Courtney Sale Ross University Professor for Globalization and Immigration Studies, explores the ways in which globalization has changed notions of “good work” — work that is socially responsible and personally meaningful.
    Made possible through a gift from the Marian B. and Jacob K. Javits Foundation, the Javits Visiting Professorship is awarded to a scholar whose work closely aligns with the interests of the late United States Senator Jacob K. Javits (New York). Areas of interest include health, civil rights, labor, foreign policy, rights of handicapped individuals, education, fairness in employment, and economic security for working Americans.
    As a developmental and cognitive psychologist with expertise in neuropsychology, Gardner developed the theory of multiple intelligences in the early 1980s. In more recent work, he has addressed issues of policy, transitioning his scholarship from “how things are” to “how things ought to be.”

—Timothy Farrell