Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Gardner's Reply on Cultural Intelligence

I was surprised to get the following e-mail from "the" Howard Gardner, the multiple intelligences guru I wrote about earlier.
I'd be inclined to include what you describe as part of interpersonal intelligence. I am also a bit wary about the stereotyping that the notion of cultural intelligence might encourage. The one time that I publicly denounced the use of my ideas was when some educators in Australia tried to describe the various indigenous populations in terms of the intelligences that they had and those that they lacked.
It wasn't clear what stereotyping he was talking about, but you know how we are. As long as we are human, if we can stereotype instead of actually getting to know people, we will. We're always looking for shortcuts and sometimes we look in the wrong places.

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