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Howard Gardner

  • Birth

    Birth
    Howard Gardner was born on July 11, 1943
  • B.A.

    B.A.
    Gardner graduated Harvard with his Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Relations.
    His thesis for this was: The retirement community in America
  • Ph.D.

    Ph.D.
    Gardner gains his Ph.D from Harvard University in Social and Developmental Psychology.
    His thesis for this was: the development of sensitivity to figural and stylistic aspects of paintings.
  • Research Psychologist

    Research Psychologist
    Gardner became a Research Psychologist at Boston V.A. Hospital
  • Project Zero

    Project Zero
    Co-Director of Project Zero
  • Professor of Medicine

    Professor of Medicine
    Gardner became a Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine
  • MacArther Prize Fellowship

    MacArther Prize Fellowship
    Gardner was awarded the MacArther Prize Fellowship
  • Frames of Mind

    Frames of Mind
    Gardener's Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences was published
  • Professor of Neurology

    Professor of Neurology
    Became Professor of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine
  • Teaching at Harvard

    Teaching at Harvard
    Gardner began teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • To Open Minds

    To Open Minds
    To Open Minds was published
  • University of Louisville’s Grawemeyer Award in Education

    University of Louisville’s Grawemeyer Award in Education
    Gardner was the first American to revieve the University of Lousivile's Grawemeyer Award in Education
  • The Unschooled Mind

    The Unschooled Mind
    A book about how students think; The Unschooled Mind was published.
  • Intelligence Reframed

    Intelligence Reframed
    Intelligence Reframed is a book of tMulitple Intelligences for the 21st Century was published
  • The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts And Standardized Tests, The K-12 Education That Every Child Deserves

    The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts And Standardized Tests, The K-12 Education That Every Child Deserves
    Gardner published The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts And Standardized Tests, The K-12 Education That Every Child Deserves
  • John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

    John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
    Gardner recieved a fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet

    Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet
    Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet was published
  • Honorary Professor

    Honorary Professor
    Gardner was named Honorary Professor at East China Normal University in Shanghai
  • Two new books were published

    Two new books were published
    Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing our Own and Other People’s Minds and Making Good: How Young People Cope with Moral Dilemmas at Work were both published this year
  • Public Intellectual

    Public Intellectual
    Foreign Policy and Proscpects Magazine chose Howard Gardner as one of the most influential public intellectual's in the world
  • Titled again

    Titled again
    Gardner was titled again from the Foreign Policy and Proscpects Magazine chose Howard Gardner as one of the most influential public intellectual's in the world