Learning multiple intelligences theory

Traditional intelligence theory holds that language ability and mathematical logic ability are the core of intelligence, and intelligence is a kind of ability that integrates them. Since 1970s, researchers have re-examined the concept of intelligence from different fields of psychology, the most influential of which is the ternary intelligence theory (analytical intelligence, creative intelligence and practical intelligence) put forward by Yale University psychologist Robert Steinberg.

In 1980s, Gardner, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard University, put forward the theory of multiple intelligences, which defined intelligence as a person's ability to solve problems and create in specific situations. He believes that each of us has eight kinds of main intelligence: language intelligence, logic-mathematics intelligence, spatial intelligence, sports intelligence, music intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, introspection intelligence and natural observation intelligence. He put forward the concept of "intelligence-based evaluation", which expanded the basis of students' learning evaluation; He advocated "situational" evaluation and corrected the functions and methods of previous educational evaluation. Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences is a powerful challenge to the traditional view of "unitary intelligence", which gives people a refreshing feeling. Especially in the current new curriculum reform, when most teachers are confused about students' evaluation, his theory will undoubtedly give us a lot of inspiration.