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Howard Gardner

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Howard Gardner is a leading thinker on education and human development. He is an expert on intelligence, creativity, leadership, and professional ethics; founding member and senior director of Project Zero; and co-founder of The Good Project.

Notable Work

Howard Gardner is the Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981, the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences in 2011, the Brock International Prize in Education in 2015, and in 2020, he was presented with the Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award by the American Educational Research Association. Howard is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences. A founding member and senior director of Project Zero, he has served on its steering and executive committees. 
 

Ongoing Studies

Howard directs The Good Project, a group of initiatives that promotes excellence, engagement, and ethics, preparing people of all ages to become good workers and good citizens who contribute to the well-being of society. With Wendy Fischman, he completed a national study documenting how different constituencies of campuses think about the goals and value of higher education in the United States. Their book, The Real World of College, was published in 2022.  
 

Recent Publications

Howard's intellectual memoir, A Synthesizing Mind, was published in 2020. His collected works, The Essential Howard Gardner on Education and The Essential Howard Gardner on Mind, were published in 2024. For more information on Howard's activities, please visit howardgardner.com. He also maintains several blogs:

Where to Find Howard

Howard's office is located in Longfellow Hall, Room 235. To ask a question or request a meeting, you can reach his office at hgasst@gse.harvard.edu. 

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