Multiple intelligences in 1971: Cattell’s Gf/Gc · 541
Gardner’s useful classroom taxonomy — weak as a psychometric theory, say Waterhouse and Visser. Howard Gardner The log for Multiple intelligences in 1971 is the line “Cattell’s Gf/Gc.” The figure written with it is 1983. Do not convert that figure into a group intelligence score or an inborn grade. The line says who repeated which task. As a reminder that children can be strong in different symbol systems, MI is a useful taxonomy. As a psychometric theory it is weak: Lynn Waterhouse (2006) and Beth Visser and colleagues (2006) argued that the “intellige
Gardner’s useful classroom taxonomy — weak as a psychometric theory, say Waterhouse and Visser. Howard Gardner’s Frames of Mind (1983) argued that a single general intelligence was too thin a story for schools, and offered several relatively autonomous intelligences — linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, later naturalist.
This page treats MI as a curriculum conversation starter, not as a replacement for Spearman’s positive manifold and not as a new caste system. It also refuses to turn “intelligences” into group rankings. Multiple intelligences mapped for mechanisms, locale notes and limits. Multiple intelligences sits in the science atlas — mechanisms, locale notes and limits, not slogans.
Adoption and meaning follow schools, clubs and labs as much as peak specs. selection systems without group rankings. conservatories, gyms and classrooms. No population score rankings; no race hierarchies. Editorial scores help browsing; they are not certificates. Related atlas: Multiple intelligences
Record Multiple intelligences as 1971, “Cattell’s Gf/Gc,” and 1983. The figure is not a group score.1971
Figures to keep
- Year of the log
- 1971
- Practice figure
- 1983
- Topic
- Multiple intelligences
- Log line
- Cattell’s Gf/Gc
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