Multiple Intelligences - New Horizons

"My research in developmental and neuropsychology, which led to the theory of multiple intelligences (MI), began in the early 1970s. The main lines of the theory had been completed by 1980, and my book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences appeared in the fall of 1983. Though my editor and publisher had high expectations for the book, I don’t think anyone anticipated the attention that these ideas would initially at- tract, particularly among educators, or the keen and continuing interest twenty-five years later in many regions of the world. During the decade that followed, I became involved in a variety of edu- cational projects that emanated, in one way or another, from MI theory. For the time being, I avoided an explicit compendium or revision of the theory. In 1993, I issued Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice, a col- lection in which I reviewed the major points of the theory and reported on several educational experiments. Shortly thereafter, I began explicitly to address some of the misunderstandings and misuses of the theory. In Intel- ligence Reframed (1999), I provided a brief update of the theory; responded to many questions, conceptions, and criticisms; and explored the relation- ship of intelligence to other concepts that I had subsequently investigated, such as leadership, creativity, and morality. In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century, twenty-five years after the idea of multiple intelligences first gelled, I determined to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of MI theory. The re- sult is the present volume" (Intro by the auto her)