By these criteria I am also prepared to defend an olfactory intelligence and a spelling intelligence and to subdivide Gardner's
spatial intelligence into near - space intelligence and far - space intelligence, thus bringing the total number of intelligences to 13.
Not exact matches
Improved
spatial intelligence translates
into better physical and mental balance, coordination, and mobility.
Using visual cues such as a chart ties
into what theorist Howard Gardner called «
spatial intelligence,» which involves how an individual processes visual information.
However, it is through arts education and the integration of the arts
into regular curriculum that schools can meet the needs of learners with
spatial, musical, naturalistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and bodily - kinesthetic
intelligences.
Gardner posits that «
spatial intelligence entails a number of loosely related capacities: the ability to recognize instances of the same element; the ability to transform or recognize a transformation of one element
into another; the capacity to conjure up mental imagery and then to transform that imagery; [and] the capacity to produce a graphic likeness of
spatial information» (1983, p. 176).
For example, having students tap
into the various aspects of
spatial intelligence with contemporary technology tools such as Google Earth or geographic information systems (GIS) enables them to explore
spatial ways of thinking and learning for deeper understandings beyond curricular boundaries.