GMUS 601 Teaching and Learning

Gardner explores all aspects of creativity, from the young child's ability to learn a new song through Mozart's conceiving a complete symphony; from the implications for creativity of studies of the brain to the effects of television on a child's imagination.

Gardner offers an original framework for understanding exactly what happens during the course of changing a mind--and how to influence that process.

Gardner gives a view of creativity, along with riveting portraits of seven figures who each reinvented an area of human endeavor.

The Disciplined Mind looks beyond such parochial issues as charters, vouchers, unions, and affirmative action in order to explore the larger questions of what an educated person should be and how such an education can be achieved for all students.

Gardner poses an important question: Is there a set of traits shared by all truly great achievers those we deem extraordinary no matter their field or the time period within which they did their important work?

As Howard Gardner argues in the groundbreaking classic Frames of Mind, to limit our understanding of intelligence to “book smarts” misses much of what makes human beings amazing.

Gardner provides a much-needed report on the theory, its evolution and revisions. He offers practical guidance on the educational uses of the theory and responds to the critiques leveled against him.

Gardner offers fascinating revelations about the mind of the leader and his or her followers. He identifies six constant features of leadership as well as paradoxes that must be resolved for leadership to be effective using portraits of leaders from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Alfred P. Sloan, from Pope John XXIII to Mahatma Gandhi.

The author philosophizes on the intricacies of teaching what he sees as the three key virtues in the modern world.