Nipawin - March 6, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis
   

parochial
view

The recurrent assertions that we have to bow to the logic of science of our researchers(1),
and to the rational arguments of our politicians must stop(2). This parochial view of the
logical and rational intelligence relegated in the minds of the few and privileged is
responsible for the current wrongs of globalization and the breakdown of our democracies.

 

 

multiple
intelligences

Professor Howard Gardner(3) states that the logic or rational abilities don't make up our
intelligence, and in fact he distinguishes multiple intelligences such as the linguistic of the
poets, the logical and mathematical of the scientists, the musical of the composers, the
spatial of sculptors and airplane pilots, the kinesthetics of dancers and athletes, the
interpersonal of the teachers and salesmen, the intrapersonal within ourselves, the natural
of the hunter.

 

 

distributed understanding

,Gardner also refers to the contextual and distributed understanding of intelligence and
includes friends, books, computer files--and I would add Internet bookmarks-- as part
of our overall intelligence.

 

 

Donah
Zohar

Writer Daniel Goleman has described emotional intelligence(4) as the ability to empathize
and relate to others, and professor Donah Zohar has further defined another intelligence,
the spiritual intelligence(5), that intelligence which makes us whole, integral and
transformative. Intelligence is people and it is democracy, intelligence is not multinational
corporations and it is not globalization.

 

 
------------References/endnotes:
   
  List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com
   

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Proper way to challenge study: more research, by Dr. Barry McLennan, The StarPhoenix, June 30, 2000, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
   

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The Third Way & Free Trade: The bounded rationality of Herb Gray and Tony Blair, by Mario deSantis, March 6, 2001
   

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Howard Gardner is co-director of Project Zero at Harvard University He is credited with the development of the multiple intelligence theory. His publications include Frames of Mind, The Unschooled Mind, Creating Minds, and Multiple Intelligences.

Booknotes Transcript, by Brian Lamb, Air Date: October 5, 1997 (re: Extraordinary Minds: Portraits of Four Exceptional Individuals and an Examination of Our Own Extraordinariness, by Howard Gardner) http://www.c-span.org/mmedia/booknote/lambbook/transcripts/50432.htm

Also refer to the sites: http://www.zephyrpress.com/gardner.htm http://www.newhorizons.org/trm_mipattern.html   http://www.newhorizons.org/crfut_gardner.html http://pzweb.harvard.edu/Research/Research.htm   http://www.pz.harvard.edu/WhatsNew/HGNYT.htm
   

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Emotional Intelligence http://www.eplay.com/1999-01-09/company/emotional.adp

Chapter 1, The New Yardstick
, Excerpted from Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman. Copyright © 1998 by Daniel Goleman and Amazon.com http://www.moneysearch.com/guestwriters/commonsmart1.html

Working With Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman http://www.bookbrowse.com/nonfiction/reviews/goleman_daniel.html
   

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SQ - Spiritual Intelligence, Danah Zohar http://www.dzohar.com/home.htm