Changing Minds.Changing Minds All of us spend time trying to change someone else's mind, always a difficult task. Yet until now little attention has been given to this subject. Howard Gardner Howard Gardner, born on July 11, 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, is a psychologist who is based at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences[0]. In 1981, he was awarded a MacArthur Prize Fellowship. , the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition cognition Act or process of knowing. Cognition includes every mental process that may be described as an experience of knowing (including perceiving, recognizing, conceiving, and reasoning), as distinguished from an experience of feeling or of willing. and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is a graduate school at Harvard University, and is one of the top schools of education in the United States. It offers six doctoral concentrations and thirteen masters programs. , has provided us with insights about the process in Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds. Gardner clearly presents a systematic approach to the process of changing others' minds, as well as our own, about all kinds of important issues. Superintendents will benefit from his discussion of seven "levers" that can have a significant impact on the process of mind change. These levers include reason, research, resonance resonance, in acoustics resonance, in acoustics: see vibration. resonance, in chemistry resonance, in chemistry: see chemical bond. , real-world events and resistance. He applies these levers to six possible arenas where minds might need to be changed--from large-scale changes involving a diverse population to smaller-scale changes involving two people. Gardner incorporates relevant examples from politics, business, history, the arts, science and everyday life to illustrate mind change in action. His examples help us to identify the most appropriate levers for the audience one is seeking to change. (Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds by Howard Gardner, Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. Press, Boston, Mass., 2004, 256 pp. with index, $26.95 hardcover) George E. Pawlas Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Central Florida “UCF” redirects here. For other uses, see UCF (disambiguation). UCF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida. UCF was founded in 1963 as Florida Technological University with the goal of providing highly trained personnel to support the Kennedy , Orlando, Fla. |
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