Wednesday, 17 September 2008

Multiple Intelligences

I anticipate this is not a subject of my knowledge. All I can do is to advance a set of blur thoughts and biases. I must then state that, in my view, the multiple intelligences theory is a rather limited conception about the way in which the human mind works. It insists in a nineteenth-century attitude whose main point is that the brain is a mechanism that hardly integrates its parts. Thus, on the one hand, there is a separate category (part) of the brain that takes care of the so-called musical intelligence, another for the visual-spacial capability, another more which is involved with kinesthetic skills, and so on, for an altogether of eight "different" intelligences. And, on the other hand, there is an underlining posture in this conception that aims to provide "scientific" elements to measure intelligence by the means of IQs. (To be continued)

2 comments:

Andrés said...

I share at some degree your points, however I would like to see the end of your blog to know what are the MI's theory constraints towards foreign language learning.

Andrés Valencia

Maria Isabel said...

As far as I can see you’re pleading against MI theory in terms of its conception of division, while, I guess, you will aim to show how human mind works integrally, as a unique mechanism. I think you’ll do fine, but don’t lose the focus: how this concerns second and foreign language teaching.