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MULTIPLE

 INTELLIGENCES  THEORY:  
FACT  or  FAD?    
 
Chaz  Pugliese  
Pilgrims,  UK.    
 
 
 
 
Nine  Intelligences  and  as  many  
misconcepKons?    
•  MIT  is  a  teaching  method.    
•  Content  should  be  taught  in  9  different  ways  
•  Do  I  have  to  test  my  students’  intelligences?    
•  MIT  does  not  take  into  account  an  intelligence  
‘g’.  
•  An  Intelligence  is  the  same  as  a  Learning  Style  
BEYOND THE LIST OF INTELLIGENCES:  

THE ENTRY POINTS FRAMEWORK


•  My  own  belief  is  that  any  topic  can  be  approached  in  at  
last  five  different  ways  that,  roughly  speaking,  map  onto  
the  mulKple  intelligences.    We  might  think  of  the  topic  as  
a  room  with  at  least  five  doors  or  entry  points  into  it.  
Students  vary  as  to  which  entry  point  is  most  appropriate  
for  them(...)    Awareness  of  these  entry  points  can  help  
the  teacher  introduce  new  materials  in  ways  in  which  
they  can  be  easily  grasped  by  a  range  of  students;  then,  
as  students  explore  other  entry  points,  they  have  the  
chance  to  develop  those  mulKple  perspecKves  that  are  
the  best  anKdote  to  stereotypical  thinking  (H.  Gardner,  
‘The  Unschooled  Mind’  p.  245).    

THE AESTHETIC WINDOW

How  the  students  respond  to  formal  and  


sensory  qualiKes  of  a  work  of  art  (WoA).  
THE NARRATIVE WINDOW
 
How  the  students  respond  to  the  narraKonal  
elements  of  a  subject  or  a  WoA.    
THE LOGICAL-QUANTITATIVE WINDOW

How  the  students  respond  to  aspects  of  a  WoA  


that  invite  deducKve  reasoning  and/or  
numerical  consideraKons.    
THE FOUNDATIONAL WINDOW

How  the  students  respond  to  the  broader  


concepts  or  philosophical  issues  raised  by  a  
subject  or  WoA.    
THE EXPERIENTIAL WINDOW
 
How  the  students  respond  to  a  subject  or  WoA  
by  doing  something  with  their  hands/bodies.    
chazpugliese@gmail.com  

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