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, located in the Kimmel Center for University Life (60 Washington Square South). The lecture, From Multiples Intelligences to Future Minds, is sponsored by NYU and the Jacob K. Javits Foundation. Gardner is the Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professor at NYU. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP (required) by October 19.
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, located in the Kimmel Center for University Life (60 Washington Square South). The lecture, From Multiples Intelligences to Future Minds, is sponsored by NYU and the Jacob K. Javits Foundation. Gardner is the Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professor at NYU. Subway Lines: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street); R, W (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place)
The event is free and open to the public. RSVP (required) by October 19 at http://www.nyu.edu/rsvp/event.php?e_id=461. For more information, call 212.998.2264.
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 mindsdisciplined, synthesizing, creating, respectful, and ethicalthat need to be cultivated in the future. The evening will include remarks by NYU President John Sexton and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor for Globalization and Immigration Studies at NYUs Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Reporters interested in attending should contact James Devitt, Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu.