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+    - education
+    - parenting
+    - 'self improvement'
+date: '2021-02-17 12:52:44'
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+posttype: note
+slug: 602d119c
+title: note
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+Reading note
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+I'm currently into reading about parenting as well as how young children learn. In the book I recently finished, I learnt about the Theory of Multiple Intelligence, first proposed by an American developmental psychologist Howard Gardner in 1983. According to him, human beings have eight different types of intelligence that reflect different ways of interacting with the world (some claims there are nine or more). The theory is a critique of the standard intelligence theory as well as traditional measures like IQ tests. Each individual possess all the types to some degree.
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+Here are the summary of eight intelligences (copied from https://www.verywellfamily.com/what-are-multiple-intelligences-4002039).
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+1. **Spatial（視覚・空間的知能）**: Visualizing, creating, and manipulating something in a space, such as what an airplane pilot, architect, or chess player may do.
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+2. **Bodily/Kinesthetic（身体・運動的知能）**: Using one's gross motor skills or fine motor skills to express oneself or to create, learn, or solve problems; involves coordination and dexterity and the use of one's whole body or parts of the body, such as the hands.
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+3. **Musical（音楽・リズム的知能）**: Expressing oneself and understanding and creating through music⁠—by singing, playing musical instruments, composing, conducting, etc. Involves musical abilities such as sensitivity to rhythm, pitch, tone, and timbre.
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+4. **Linguistic（言語・語学的知能）**: Being attuned to the meaning of words and the sound, rhythms, inflections, and meter of words, the way a poet might. May involve reading, writing, speaking, an affinity for foreign languages.
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+5. **Mathematical/Logical（論理・数学的知能）**: Understanding and recognizing the patterns and relationships between numbers and actions or symbols; possessing computing skills; having the ability to solve various problems through logic.
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+6. **Interpersonal（対人的知能）**: Being attuned to other people's feelings, emotions, and temperament. Individuals with high interpersonal intelligence are often associated with leadership and tend to be good at communicating with and understanding other people and are good at working with others. Sometimes referred to as social intelligence.
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+7. **Intrapersonal（内省的知能）**: Awareness of one's own feelings, thoughts, anxieties, and traits, and the ability to use that understanding of oneself to control one's own impulses and behavior and make plans and decisions.
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+8. **Naturalist（博物的知能）**: Understanding nature⁠—plants, animals, the environment, etc.⁠—and identifying, observing, categorizing, and understanding distinguishing features. This intelligence helps us use elements and patterns in the natural world to create products or solve problems.
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+Out of curiosity, I did an online assessment that contains 63 questions to find out about my intelligences. I scored high in the interpersonal and naturalist intelligences (4.29/5 in both) with the mathematical/logical intelligence being the lowest (2/5), which was not surprising at all.
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+The theory is widely applied in educational settings and by parents. Here are the things we parents can do at home (copied from https://www.verywellfamily.com/what-are-multiple-intelligences-4002039).
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+- **Spend time with kids and see what they like**: do ordinary things like having dinner or playing games.
+- **Value strengths instead of what kids can't do**: build your child's sense of pride in things they are good at.
+- **Engage your child in different ways**: if a child is struggling with something, suggest different approaches to it.
+- **Consider the expectations we have today**: do not put additional social pressure on your child.
+- **Know that intelligence is a snapshot**: expose your child to a variety of experiences as their MI profiles is not static. 
+- **Look at the value of all the intelligences**: educations tend to focus on linguistic and math but all the intelligences should be valued equally. 
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+I find that, while the theory has received criticisms in the relevant academic world, it gives a good guidance for parents to raise children. It gives ideas for the ways we communicate, play and study, and depth to activities and experiences in everyday life. 
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