Multiple intelligences and professions: challenges of higher education

Abstract

The search and importance of educational quality is a topic that we often hear, observe, and read in the different media, institutions and organizations dedicated to education. Research carried out by renowned education specialists such as Howard Gardner, Ken Robinson, Eduard Punset, Daniel Goleman y Alvin Toffler, raises the urgency of transforming educational institutions. From the reality before exposed, the key question for this research arises: Does university education consider multiple intelligences in admission policies and in the curriculum? To answer this question, Howard Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences was used as a theoretical basis, considering that the IQ is immersed among multiple intelligences. In this first stage of research, the class groups that the researchers attended in the 2018-2019 period were selected. The multiple intelligences test was retaken, which was put online so that the participants could proceed to answer it individually. The test contains a battery of thirty-five (35) closed questions and was answered by 69 students from different professions. The results after some important considerations: the first, referring to the fact that the participating average students have marked multiple intelligence diversity, but not related to the professions; According to Gardner's methodology, the four points must be reached to have a marked intelligence. The other important element to consider is that students could further expand their types of intelligences under favorable conditions. Failure to find outstanding intelligences could mean students who have developed their potential, in unfavorable fields and fields. The other important element is the fact of avoiding multiple intelligences as variables that consider the professional inclinations of students.