Speaker Profiles

Howard Gardner

Howard Gardner

professor, cognition and education, HGSE
http://www.howardgardner.com/index.html
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds positions as adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University, adjunct professor of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and senior director of Harvard Project Zero.   [more]
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Keeping Hope Alive: New Era of Youth Civic Engagement
Peter Levine
February 25, 2009
01:24:43
Thinkers and practitioners from the worlds of research, policy, media and technology, politics, youth organizing, and schools discuss the causes and consequences of recent trends in youth civic engagement. The panel considers how youth can become further civically engaged and empowered.
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Howard Gardner: Five Minds for the Future
Howard Gardner
May 3, 2007
01:09:33
Howard Gardner speaks about his new book, Five Minds for the Future explaining why, in the future, it will be important to develop five kinds of minds, both in school and in other educational environments.
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Steven Pinker: Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
November 14, 2002
01:34:44
Steven Pinker, the Peter de Florez Professor of Psychology at MIT and author of How the Mind Works and The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, discusses his latest book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature.
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Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet
Howard Gardner
October 9, 2001
01:23:44
The co-authors of Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet discuss how professionals can do work that is both expert and socially responsible, even in market-driven times.
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Ray Kurzweil: Technology, the Brain, and the Future
Raymond Kurzweil
May 15, 2001
00:38:01
Ray Kurzweil discusses the future of technology and it's advances in relation to the human brain. Kurzweil has invented many important practices, objects, and even fields of future study that are discussed in this presentation.
Image of Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice
Author: Howard E. Gardner
Publisher: Basic Books (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 320 pages
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