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    What is 'clever'?

    Professor Howard Gardner, once described by the Financial Times as ‘the man who changed our notion of what it means to be clever’, spoke at independent girls school Roedean yesterday.

    By inviting Gardner onto campus, Roedean, which already has some of the best A level results in Sussex, is cementing its position as an intellectual heavy hitter. Gardner’s theory on multiple intelligences has set the agenda in the psychology and educational theory communities for twenty five years.

    Commenting on the presence of such a noteworthy speaker, Frances King, Head said: ”Roedean was originally founded to prepare girls for entry to the University of Cambridge, so our raison d’être has always been academic achievement. Today Professor Gardner will be challenging us to look anew at the Roedean curriculum to ensure we are equipping our students with those skills they need for a fulfilling career and work/life balance.”

    Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The author of over twenty books translated into twenty-seven languages, and several hundred articles, he is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the idea that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard psychometric instruments.

    By Zoe Marlow at Thursday, 8 October 2009

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