Some days ago I was discussing with a friend, who was preparing a summary for one of her college presentation essays, the influence on educational processes, of the theories on multiple intelligences presented by Howard Gardner theories in his book “Frames of Mind”.
I have to recognize that I had not been in contact with his work until now, nor I have been familiar with the modern educational theories, as a product of past, but in my own experience, solid approaches, based on the scarcer sources of innovative motivators and influencers of our sensations and emotions.
After reading the booklet she was using, in Spanish, for his work, I realized the appropriateness of the concepts and definitions of such multiple intelligences or abilities, as described by Gardner, when applied to the analysis of the manipulation of the behavioral attitudes, actions of the present generations.
It became clearer the astute and clever usage of the perceptional abilities that all humans possess, as stated by Gardner when he says: People have a unique blend of intelligences. The big challenge facing the deployment of human resources 'is how to best take advantage of the uniqueness conferred on us as a species exhibiting several intelligences' (ibid.: 45).
While he relates the “Linguistic” and the “Logical-Mathematical” intelligences, to the educational spectrum, leaving the rest to the arts and finally to the personal realm… it seems to me that every one of them, gyrate around the individual and collective!
It has become overwhelmingly present and absorbing the already blatant and pervasive task of proselytism, and the push for change to adapt to, and accept new mores and beliefs, reducing to the minimal expression the capacity for analysis, questioning and discrimination by the individual, and consequently, by the collective structures of societies and nations, especially in the political and the financial.
Let´s analyze the definitions focusing on this approach of visualization and involvement of them all in a coordinated effort to break the individual perception of the real nature of things presented for consideration.
I have to recognize that I had not been in contact with his work until now, nor I have been familiar with the modern educational theories, as a product of past, but in my own experience, solid approaches, based on the scarcer sources of innovative motivators and influencers of our sensations and emotions.
After reading the booklet she was using, in Spanish, for his work, I realized the appropriateness of the concepts and definitions of such multiple intelligences or abilities, as described by Gardner, when applied to the analysis of the manipulation of the behavioral attitudes, actions of the present generations.
It became clearer the astute and clever usage of the perceptional abilities that all humans possess, as stated by Gardner when he says: People have a unique blend of intelligences. The big challenge facing the deployment of human resources 'is how to best take advantage of the uniqueness conferred on us as a species exhibiting several intelligences' (ibid.: 45).
While he relates the “Linguistic” and the “Logical-Mathematical” intelligences, to the educational spectrum, leaving the rest to the arts and finally to the personal realm… it seems to me that every one of them, gyrate around the individual and collective!
It has become overwhelmingly present and absorbing the already blatant and pervasive task of proselytism, and the push for change to adapt to, and accept new mores and beliefs, reducing to the minimal expression the capacity for analysis, questioning and discrimination by the individual, and consequently, by the collective structures of societies and nations, especially in the political and the financial.
Let´s analyze the definitions focusing on this approach of visualization and involvement of them all in a coordinated effort to break the individual perception of the real nature of things presented for consideration.
According to Gardner, Musical intelligence involves skill in the performance, composition, and appreciation of musical patterns. It encompasses the capacity to recognize (the listener) and compose (the emitter) musical pitches, tones, and rhythms. It runs in an almost structural parallel to the linguistic intelligence.
Nowadays it almost replaces the written language by way of emphasizing the spoken repetitive, high pitched staccato verbal message, at the same time that encompass, surround and permeates the bodily-kinesthetic and spatial, abilities or receptive intelligences of the audiences and receptors of its messages.
In other words, it transmits, influences and dominates its audience through the Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence that entails the potential of using one's whole body or parts of the body to solve problems, because of its capacity to use our mental abilities to coordinate bodily movements.
And due to the present technological proliferation of techniques, instruments, process and special effects makes the most mesmerizing manipulation of our Spatial intelligence that involves the potential to recognize and use the patterns of wide space and more confined areas.
It is in such a way that our sensations and emotions are saturated, motivated, led, and for all practical purposes manipulated into subconscious, subliminal, and automatic control, by way of deception and absorption of the message addressed to the individual and the social collectivity that are the focus and the target of the messages.
This is the moment when the powerful impulse to become a member at all costs of the generational social conglomerate, influenced by the intervention in our minds, and emotions, in a concerted effort to dominate our spirits, is almost coerced into passivity, if not massive, indiscriminate, or lost into and carried away by the force of the masses, action and participation.
This is the field of influence of what Gardner defines as the Interpersonal intelligence which is concerned with the capacity to understand the intentions, motivations and desires of other people.
And because of the push for acceptance of the peer pressure as the only acceptable way of living to be considered a club member, clashes with the self-controlling and self-discriminating capacity that human beings should always keep intact at all costs.
This is what Gardner defines as the Intrapersonal intelligence or capacity to understand oneself, to appreciate one's feelings, fears and motivations. In Howard Gardner's view it involves having an effective working model of ourselves, and to be able to use such information to regulate our lives.
Nowadays it almost replaces the written language by way of emphasizing the spoken repetitive, high pitched staccato verbal message, at the same time that encompass, surround and permeates the bodily-kinesthetic and spatial, abilities or receptive intelligences of the audiences and receptors of its messages.
In other words, it transmits, influences and dominates its audience through the Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence that entails the potential of using one's whole body or parts of the body to solve problems, because of its capacity to use our mental abilities to coordinate bodily movements.
And due to the present technological proliferation of techniques, instruments, process and special effects makes the most mesmerizing manipulation of our Spatial intelligence that involves the potential to recognize and use the patterns of wide space and more confined areas.
It is in such a way that our sensations and emotions are saturated, motivated, led, and for all practical purposes manipulated into subconscious, subliminal, and automatic control, by way of deception and absorption of the message addressed to the individual and the social collectivity that are the focus and the target of the messages.
This is the moment when the powerful impulse to become a member at all costs of the generational social conglomerate, influenced by the intervention in our minds, and emotions, in a concerted effort to dominate our spirits, is almost coerced into passivity, if not massive, indiscriminate, or lost into and carried away by the force of the masses, action and participation.
This is the field of influence of what Gardner defines as the Interpersonal intelligence which is concerned with the capacity to understand the intentions, motivations and desires of other people.
And because of the push for acceptance of the peer pressure as the only acceptable way of living to be considered a club member, clashes with the self-controlling and self-discriminating capacity that human beings should always keep intact at all costs.
This is what Gardner defines as the Intrapersonal intelligence or capacity to understand oneself, to appreciate one's feelings, fears and motivations. In Howard Gardner's view it involves having an effective working model of ourselves, and to be able to use such information to regulate our lives.
The effort to reinforce the existence and positive action gives place to a “Questioning phase” where what is defined as the Logical-mathematical intelligence, or the capacity to analyze problems logically, investigate issues to detect patterns, reason deductively and think logically.
This type of intelligence or ability tries to join efforts with the Intrapersonal intelligence that entails the capacity to understand oneself, to appreciate one's feelings, fears and motivations. In Howard Gardner's view it involves having an effective working model of ourselves, and to be able to use such information to regulate our lives.Unfortunately this questioning sees itself challenged by the complacency of the different inputs identified as derived from the limbic system identified by this author as the intelligences related to the frames of minds, or mind perceptions as the central motivating and justifying factor.
Those derivations receive the name of “Affective”, “Motivational! And “Emotional” intelligences, which are not evil per se, but open themselves to complacency, undue and unrightfully acceptance of what internally raises an alarm ring in our conscience.
This clash is ending with an increasingly usual result of failure and consequently isolation and rejection of the dissenters and questioners, by the already subjugated individual and its influencing social partners.
We all should always have in mind, and pay the corresponding consideration to the statement by Gardner that “these intelligences, are amoral - they can be put to constructive or destructive use”.
The challenge is then, to turn the coin over, and instead of accepting that success, leadership, consist, as is the rule nowadays, in the manipulation of the individual and collective sensations and emotions, which is the negative and destructive use of the intelligences endowed to men by our Creator.
There are other abilities that have been defined as such in order to justify the human acceptance of the free-fall behavior of mankind, in order to deny the, in their eyes, unjustified and unnatural acceptance of the superior ruling and control of who I call the Creator.
Almost all of them concur in the denying or degrading as an unnatural submission of man, whom they consider the master and controller of all Nature, despite any abuse, neglect or lack of concern for its care, permanence and protection.
They have been labeled as the Naturalist intelligence which enables human beings to recognize, categorize and draw upon certain features of the environment, 'combining a description of the core ability with a characterization of the role that many cultures value' (ibid.: 48).
Or the “Existential intelligence”, opposing them to the “Moral” and “Spiritual” intelligences, discarding them as “far more complex, with manifest and problematic connotations”, and preferring to replace them with the euphemistically called, human concern with the ultimate issues!
The challenge is then, to turn the coin over, and instead of accepting that success, leadership, consist, as is the rule nowadays, in the manipulation of the individual and collective sensations and emotions, which is the negative and destructive use of the intelligences endowed to men by our Creator.
There are other abilities that have been defined as such in order to justify the human acceptance of the free-fall behavior of mankind, in order to deny the, in their eyes, unjustified and unnatural acceptance of the superior ruling and control of who I call the Creator.Almost all of them concur in the denying or degrading as an unnatural submission of man, whom they consider the master and controller of all Nature, despite any abuse, neglect or lack of concern for its care, permanence and protection.
They have been labeled as the Naturalist intelligence which enables human beings to recognize, categorize and draw upon certain features of the environment, 'combining a description of the core ability with a characterization of the role that many cultures value' (ibid.: 48).
Or the “Existential intelligence”, opposing them to the “Moral” and “Spiritual” intelligences, discarding them as “far more complex, with manifest and problematic connotations”, and preferring to replace them with the euphemistically called, human concern with the ultimate issues!
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