Howard Gardner

Harvard University

Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education

Howard Gardner is the Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a leading thinker about education and human development; he has studied and written extensively about intelligence, creativity, leadership, synthesizing, and the arts. His recent research is on American higher education and on 'good work' and 'good citizenship'. He has received honorary degrees from thirty-one colleges and universities, including institutions in Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, South Korea and Spain. Gardner’s most recent books include Good Work, Changing Minds, The Development and Education of the Mind, Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons, Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed. The App Generation (co-authored with Katie Davis), and The Real World of College (co-authored with Wendy Fischman). In 2020, MIT Press published his intellectual memoir A Synthesizing Mind. In 2024, Teachers College Press published a two-volume collection of his work, Howard Gardner on Mind and on Education. An updated edition of his book Frames of Mind is forthcoming from Basic Books, to be published in 2026. He is the winner of the 1990 Grawmeyer Award in Education, 2011 Asturias Prize in Social Science, and the 2015 Brock International Prize in Education. A Festschrift marking Gardner's 70th birthday is available online at howardgardner.com, as is further information about this unique text. With Wendy Fischman, he is currently at work on a national study of higher education. Emerging findings are available on the Real World of College at https://www.therealworldofcollege.com/blog. He continues to carry out research at Harvard's Project Zero, an organization which he's been affiliated with since its founding in 1967.