Psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon, and Howard Gardner spend the year together at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California. Over the course of the year, they develop rough plans for a collaborative project, which they entitle The Humane Creativity Project. A wide ranging search for funding results in an initial grant from the Hewlett Foundation...
October 4, 2011
Everyone is talking about the opportunities and risks of new digital media, especially for young people. Research suggests that young people often lack mentorship in their online lives, especially from adults who are savvy about the ways of the web and can offer them guidance into what it would mean to take an ethical course through their digital lives. Many young people want to do the “right thing” online, even as they are confronted with a range of dilemmas, but may need some help identifying good courses of action.
In an effort to address this gap, researchers at Harvard, MIT and USC spent three years developing a casebook of curricular materials called, Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World. Read More
September 1, 2011
“We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.” –Howard Gardner
In the latest entry to her Huffington Post series The Global Search for Education, C. M. Rubin asks Howard Gardner “What Do We Value Most?”
Prof. Gardner goes on to offer his perspective on standardized testing, defining educational excellence, and citizenship.
July 6, 2011
On the July 2 episode of Open Mind, Gardner talked about his latest book Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed and how his thoughts on these virtues have progressed from the original findings of the GoodWork Project and the more recent GoodPlay Project.
[HEFFNER:] Of course, I realized as I read this quite compelling attack on determinism – with its insistence that “Human agency matters enormously” – that today I must first ask my friend whether his new book isn’t in a most fundamental sense a sort of would-be antidote to the despair he and his colleagues in Harvard’s famous “GoodWork Project” must have felt in their discoveries about what really motivates so many of today’s professional workers. Fair … or not, Howard?
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