Howard Gardner: The Theory of Multiple Mentors

In this What's Your Calling? interview, Howard Gardner talks about his mentors, the privilege of scholarship, and the give and take associated with finding and pursuing one's calling. Howard is a developmental psychologist, the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard, Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero, and co-founder of the GoodWork Project. Howard received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981 and is the author of 25 books translated into 28 languages. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be adequately assessed by standard psychometric instruments. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Interview & Camera by Erin Williams / Editing by Matt Lauterbach / Produced by Danny Alpert & Rachel Pikelny

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Howard Gardner continues to have a major influence on my work with youth in the area of Career Formation. Dr. Gardner, Harvard's Project Zero and the dazzling array of colleagues and "learners" enabled me to name my calling.

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