Monday, 26 October 2009
Howard Gardner Under Fire
Editorial Reviews
Review
"A lively and thoughtful presentation of Howard Gardner's ideas along with well considered criticisms of them by leading scholars." -- Jerome Bruner, Author of Acts of Meaning
"This examination of Gardner's wide-ranging and influential ideas provides a dazzling intellectual banquet." -- Mindy Kornhaber, Co-author of Multiple Intelligences: Best Ideas from Research and Practice
Product Description
Howard Gardner is most celebrated for his conception and development of the theory of Multiple Intelligences, which has revolutionized educational thinking. Gardner has also made outstanding original contributions to the study of leadership, creativity, child development, and humanly-fulfilling work.
Prior to Gardner's Frames of Mind (1983), there was little sustained theoretical opposition to the reigning paradigm of IQ, in which it is supposed that intelligence is a single concept known as 'g', exhibiting itself in scholastic attainment and detectable by a narrow range of puzzle-solving tests. Gardner transformed the discussion of intelligence and education by making a powerful case that there are several forms of intelligence, some of which express themselves in activities not traditionally considered academic.
In Creating Minds (1993), Gardner provoked a Gestalt switch in public understanding of creative genius, by analyzing the lives and achievements of seven diverse personalities from Einstein to Picasso, each of whom founded a new "system of meaning." With Project Zero, Gardner directed research into children's artistic development, yielding many controversial conclusions and providing new ideas for educators. Gardner's GoodWork Project is a broad empirical investigation of the experiences of professional workers in a range of occupations, seeking the conditions most conducive to work which is "good" both ethically and technically. His Changing Minds (2004) applied findings from cognitive psychology to explain how people's deep-rooted convictions can be changed.
All these and other topics are explored in this volume, by way of a debate between Gardner and his critics.
As novas bonecas de Mimi Kirchner
The tatoo laidy...
http://mimikirchner.com/blog/archives/2009/10/tattoo-lady-3/
Art and Complexity
Editorial Reviews
Review
John de Rivaz
....a testament to the ongoing ability of artists and scientists to communicate to unravel mysteries in the world around us.....
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George J. Klir
This is a stimulating book that I can wholeheartedly recommend to all readers who are interested in art, music or literature
International Journal of General Systems
Eu gosto! / I like it!
Editorial Review - Kirkus Reviews Copyright (c) VNU Business Media, Inc.
Old and new papers on artistic development by the Harvard psychologist--without the focus or fullness of Artful Scribbles (1980). Gardner speaks as a cognitive psychologist worshipful of past masters, but unsatisfied by the severe rationality the discipline has imposed on developmental studies. Some years ago, he joined with like-minded colleagues in Harvard Project Zero (because nothing was known ...
More), a program to study creativity--and the affective component involved--via research on children, brain-damaged individuals, and talented artists. The psychologists might begin a fairy tale, for example, leaving out all emotional or motivational statements, and ask a child to finish it. Or, they would query the meaning of metaphors, discovering that preschoolers often missed the emotional point: ""HIS heart was turned to stone"" meant just that. Much of the work is descriptive and tentative; numbers are limited, and cross-cultural or socioeconomic comparisons are lacking. Still, Gardner's conclusions seem sound, if hardly novel: between two and six, children enjoy an exploratory exuberance, creating handsome ""first drafts"" in all media; from learning the rules and needing to conform in school, a more proscribed literalness follows; in adolescenses, critical acumen is achieved. Gardner fears that many budding artists are lost in adolescent self-criticism, and he suggests preventive interventions--teach eight-or-nine-year-olds perspective, make use of creative computer toys or didactic museum shows (e.g., comparing originals and fakes). In later sections, he discusses his work with aphasic patients and other brain-damaged individuals, as well as current neuroscientific findings about right and left brain differences. He concludes with thoughts about adult creativity, speculating on the origin of Mozart's genius. A heterogeneous, erratic collection--with some stimulating pieces, others that repeat the obvious or don't go far enough.
Thursday, 15 October 2009
About this blog
For almost 10 years I have developed, with artists and educators, children art courses. These courses are a place for creativity to flourish! I have worked with many different artists, with many different techniques… Growing young I had great fun with the children!I love childhood more than anything… I guess this is the reason for this blog to exist!I would like to share some of these wonderful moments as well as some of the artworks!It will have to do it slowly!
A minha primeira boneca
I was inspired by Mimi Kirchner. But my dolls are different. The materials are different! The cloths are removable. The doll is made in felt, but the dress is not. There was a cut on the neck which I have removed… I am already trying another one, which does not use felt at all and which is more detailed in the hands and in the nose…
However, I would like to thank Mimi Kirchner and Purlbee for sharing their dolls..
However, I would like to thank Mimi Kirchner and Purlbee for sharing their dolls..
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