Ressignificando as inteligências múltiplas na educação

Abstract

The present bibliographical research search to study the theory of the multiple intelligences and its applicability in the education, checking that its knowledge can bring significant changes for us educators, studentes, parents... and other professionals, among them psychopedagogue. The thory appeared as a critic to the standard psychometria, that it valued through tests of QI, just two intelligences: The Logical-mathematics and Linguistics. Of this way, the concept of intelligence was enlarged, that in its opinion can be defined as " a potential biopsychological process information, that it can be activated in a cultural scenery to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture ", establishing criterious so that an intelligence is considered as such, from its manifestation in cultural groups until the location of its area in the brain; identifying the following intelligences now: Linguistics or Verbal, Musical, Logical-mathematics, Space, Cinestesycal-corporal, Naturalistic, Interpersonal, Intra-personal, and Espiritual/Existencial (as stocking intelligence some approaches are still being researched). Because some criterious are still being researched and the fundamental points of the theory are: number of competences is not definitive neither central, fundamental it is the multiple character. The intelligences interact; The intelligence is not only and it cannot be measured. It considers differences, it doesn't label, it standardizes or it measures abilities. Finally, in this new scenery of the Multiple Intelligences, the teacher occupies its role again as important and fundamental presence, rescuing the most important of the professions that is to be educating, in its mission of stimulater of the intelligence and agent orientater agent of the happiness heading for an education for the understanding, for the citizenship for good, the beautiful and the true. The theory of the Multiple Intelligences, proposes new evaluation perspectives, allowing the students accomplishments in several areas of the knowledge, enlarging like this multiple possibilities in education.