A German Perspective

Gardner, W. J. R.

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“…Although Gardner is adamant that morality, character, emotional sensitivity, creativity, and wisdom are virtues that schools ought to sustain, 13 my concern is that the rhetoric in favor of these human qualities becomes submerged by the scientific and epistemological resources devoted to Gardner's "new definition of human nature." If the focus of schooling is on fostering multiple abilities and competences in respect to certain well-defined domains ("knowing how" and "knowing that" 14 ), there is the real danger that nurturing dispositions to act normatively will take second place, if not be overlooked entirely. Gardner's theory focuses on "intellectual character" to the detriment of "moral character."…”

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The Formation of Character: Spirituality Seeking Justice

Blomberg¹

2006

Journal of Education and Christian Belief

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EDUCATION ALWAYS DEPENDS on a view of humanness. Howard Gardner's influential theory of multiple intelligences promotes a broader view of human abilities than that generally favored in schooling, but Gardner relegates ethical, spiritual, and other normative dimensions to the periphery. The paper argues that virtue ethics, despite historical Protestant antipathy (which is addressed), provides a more comprehensive perspective, as long as the development of the virtues is seen to be embedded in creation and community. A biblical understanding of spirituality supplies the core that is missing from Gardner's bundle of computational competences, and seeking God's justice is its proper goal. Schooling for What? Mass schooling has traditionally favored verbal and logical-mathematical understandings. Despite efforts to draw a broader map of the pedagogical terrain, this orientation has intensified its hold on the territory of schooling over the past twenty years, as evidenced by an increasing emphasis on testing of literacy and numeracy skills and content acquisition. But, as Nel Noddings wrote recently in Educational Leadership, Surely, we should demand more from our schools than to educate people to be proficient in reading and mathematics. Too many highly proficient people commit fraud, pursue paths to success marked by greed, and care little about how their actions affect the lives of others. 1 Elsewhere in the same issue, in a claim reminiscent of Paulo Freire, Elliot Eisner states that education is "a political undertaking because it reveals in its practice a conception of human nature, a view of the human mind, an image of what the young can become, and a vision that can guide us as we try to invent the future." 2 Werner Jaeger suggested that the Greeks were the first to recognize that education is a deliberate

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Section: Plural Excellences?mentioning

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The Formation of Character: Spirituality Seeking Justice

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