Introduction to our topic

The theory of multiple intelligences differentiates intelligence into specific 'modalities', rather than seeing intelligence as dominated by a single general ability. Howard Gardner proposed this model in his 1983 book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. This theory has emerged from recent cognitive research and "documents the extent to which students possess different kinds of minds and therefore learn, remember, perform, and understand in different ways,". 

Gardner says that these differences "challenge an educational system that assumes that everyone can learn the same materials in the same way and that a uniform, universal measure suffices to test student learning. Indeed, as currently constituted, our educational system is heavily biased toward linguistic modes of instruction and assessment and, to a somewhat lesser degree, toward logical-quantitative modes as well." Gardner argues that "a contrasting set of assumptions is more likely to be educationally effective. Students learn in ways that are identifiably distinctive. The broad spectrum of students - and perhaps the society as a whole - would be better served if disciplines could be presented in a numbers of ways and learning could be assessed through a variety of means." 

So, the eight multiple intelligences of Gardner, which we will be talking about in the blog's entries, are the next: 

Despite we will talk only about these eight, Gardner proposed also other two intelligences, which are pedagogical and existential. As we have only studied the previous eight and we think those are more important, we will only work with that. 

We must also say, that depending on the resources which a person uses, you can find that the multiple intelligences are only seven, eight or ten, as we have just explained.

Fuente: wikipedia y http://www.tecweb.org/styles/gardner.html