iDiscoveri, a social enterprise involved in various initiatives aimed at quality education, will present a five-city tour of psychologist Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The event will be held in Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad and New Delhi between January 25 and February 7.
The initiative is aimed at providing educators, policymakers, psychologists, industry leaders, and research scholars an opportunity to listen to and interact with the well-known developmental psychologist, who proposed the ‘Theory of Multiple Intelligences.'
The talks and discussions will cover areas such as how the human mind functions, the multiple levels of learning, leadership, teaching for understanding, techniques of nurturing the human mind to its fullest potential, and ethics and intelligence.
The tour begins with a programme at IIT-Madras on January 25. The session will be held between 3.30 p.m. and 7 p.m. For details on the schedule, visit: www.howardgardnerindiatour.com.
