The Biography of Howard Gardner
June 16th, 2008 -- Posted in Who | No Comments »The Biography of Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A.
Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the
Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among
numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur
Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first
American to receive the University of Louisville’s
Grawemeyer Award in Education and in 2000 he
received a Fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation. He has received honorary
degrees from twenty-two colleges and universities,
including institutions in Chile, Ireland, Israel, and
Italy. In 2004 he was named an Honorary Professor
at East China Normal University in Shanghai. In
2005 he was selected by Foreign Policy and
Prospect magazines as one of 100 most influential
public intellectuals in the world. He has been
elected a member of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical
Society, the National Academy of Education, and
most recently (2007) the London-based Royal
Society for the Encouragement of Arts,
Manufactures, and Commerce. He serves on a
number of boards, including the Spencer
Foundation and New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
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