... 9 TYPES INTELLIGENCE- A BREAKTHROUGH IN FINDING PERSON’S APTITUDE

For several decades , psychologists, educationists, career counselor in pune  were trying to find a model way to probe into a person’s mind – to find his/her aptitude.

In 1983 a major breakthrough arrived, by the discovery of Multiple Intelligence The theory was first put forth by Professor Howard Gardner in his principality -book , Frames of mind. For his work on broadening our understanding of human intelligence Gardner received one of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship Awards. While his original theory included descriptions of 7 intelligences, in the mid-1990s he began to propose that there was an eighth kind of smarts — naturalistic intelligence. Later the Ninth Intelligence was added– Existential or Cosmic Smarts

Gardner was the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, The main strength of Gardner’s work is that he accurately pinpointed parts of the brain as these connection to each of his described intelligences.

Over the past 40+ years Gardner’s MI theory is acclaimed and being applied by teachers, parents and career counsellors as a tool for explaining and differentiating the talents and gifts of children. The spread of this important theory reached all over the globe.

This discovery, the treatise has helped many teachers and parents better understand how to use children’s strengths to improve or heighten cognition and learning.

While initially Professor Gardner described seven aspects of human intelligence as being verbal/linguistic; mathematical/logical; spatial; musical; kinesthetic; interpersonal; and intrapersonal, in 1994 he added eighth intelligence, “naturalistic intelligence”(or “nature smarts”). Naturalistic intelligence was then more fully described and officially added to his thesis seven intelligences in 1999 in his book Intelligence Reframed.

All of us in school have been told that we are intelligent in some aspects/subjects and not in some. If you are not good at math or language, you might still be gifted at other things but it was not called “intelligence”- before the above theory was accepted.

In 1983 an American developmental psychologist Howard Gardener put forth 9 types of intelligence[1]

·        Naturalist (nature )

·        Musical (sound )

·        Logical-mathematical (number/reasoning )

·        Existential (life )

·        Interpersonal (people )

·        Bodily-kinesthetic (body)

·        Linguistic (word)

·        Intra-personal (self smart)

·        Spatial (visual)

What other scientists thought there were just soft-skills or interpersonal skills, Gardener realized its the types of intelligence. It makes sense. Just as being a math whiz gives you the ability to understand the world, so does being “people smart” give you the same ability, just from a different perspective. Not knowing math you may not calculate the rate at which the universe is expanding, but you are likely to have the skills to find the right person who will.

For something to qualify as an intelligence, it has to satisfy Howard Gardner’s eight “signs” of intelligence. After extensive research, Gardner identified nine, distinct intelligences.

SPATIAL INTELIGENCE

This is the capability to visualize and  conceptualize and design vast spaces, 3D These persons can be architects, designers.

BODILY-KINESTHETIC inteligence

This suggests the ability to manoeuvre one’s  body, or parts of the body ( hands, legs  or the mouth). These persons can be dancers, actors.

MUSICAL inteligence

This faculty is cognitive to rhythm, pitch, meter, tone, melody.It can lead to the ability to sing, play musical instruments, and/or compose music .

 

LINGUISTIC inteligence

Sensitivity to the meaning of words, order among words, and the sound, rhythms, inflections, and meter of words (e.g. poet). (Sometimes called language intelligence.)

LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL inteligence

The capacity to conceptualize the logical relations among actions or symbols. Famed psychologist Jean Piaget believed he was studying the range of intelligences, but he was actually studying logical-mathematical intelligence.

INTERPERSONAL inteligence

The ability to interact effectively with others. Sensitivity to others’ moods, feelings, temperaments and motivations (e.g. negotiator). (Sometimes called social intelligence.)

NATURALISTIC inteligence

The ability to make consequential distinctions in the world of nature , for example, between one plant and another, or one cloud formation and another (e.g. taxonomist). (Sometimes called nature intelligence.)

EXISTENTIAL inteligence

It deals with a sense to understand  human existence and the meaning of life.

DMIT- Dermatogyphic multiple intelligence test is used by career counsellors, career advisors in Pune for children, adults and even for people working in Corporate world, IT companies and so on.

The well acclaimed center in Pune- THE Dmit Counseling Center- is a subject expert in this model of counselling. The result is it has mapped  the career path of hundreds of students.

The test not only clarifies students but also the parents after they discover the aptitude, IQ Test results and DMIT results.

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