Five Minds for the Future

by Howard Gardner Narrated by Mark Adams

Overview

We live in a time of changes that include accelerating globalization, mounting quantities of information, the growing hegemony of science and technology, and the clash of civilizations. Those changes call for new ways of learning and thinking in school, business, and the professions. In this audiobook, psychologist Howard Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the years ahead:

• The disciplinary mind - master of major schools of thought.
  
  
• The synthesizing mind - ability to integrate ideas.
  
  
• The creating mind - capacity to uncover and clarity problems, questions and phenomena.
  
  
• The respectful mind - awareness of and appreciation for differences among human beings.
  
  
• The ethical mind - fulfillment of one's responsibilities.

Armed with these well-honed capacities, a person will be equipped to deal with what is expected in the future-as well as what cannot be anticipated. Without these "minds," individuals will be at the mercy of forces they can't understand-overwhelmed by information, unable to succeed in the workplace, and incapable of making judicious decisions about personal and professional matters.

Editorial Reviews

BusinessWeek

. . . a detailed and thoughtful description of the multifaceted brains that are likely to be most valued in the coming decades.

Publishers Weekly

Psychologist, author and Harvard professor Gardner (Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons) has put together a thought-provoking, visionary attempt to delineate the kinds of mental abilities ("minds") that will be critical to success in a 21st-century landscape of accelerating change and information overload. Gardner's five minds-disciplined, synthesizing, creating, respectful and ethical-are not personality types, but ways of thinking available to anyone who invests the time and effort to cultivate them: "how we shoulduse our minds." In presenting his "values enterprise," Gardner uses a variety of explanatory models, from developmental psychology to group dynamics, demonstrating their utility not just for individual development, but for tangible success in a full range of human endeavors, including education, business, science, art, politics and engineering. This is a tall order for a single work, yet Gardner avoids overly technical arguments as well as breezy generalizations, putting to fine use his 20 years' experience as a cognitive science researcher, author and educator, and proving his world-class reputation well earned. Though specialists might wish Gardner had dug a bit more into the research, most readers will find the book lively and engaging, like the fascinating lectures of a seasoned, beloved prof. (Apr.)

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940170317110
Publisher:	Ascent Audio
Publication date:	08/08/2011
Edition description:	Unabridged

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