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Five Minds for the Future: What

they are; how to bring them about

May 2010

Howard GardnerHarvard Graduate School of Education


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Plan

A disclaimer

Introducing the five minds

Elements of Good work The digital era

Nurturing the five minds


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My work as psychologist and aspolicymaker

Five Minds do not = 8, 8 , or 9

intelligences Policies for education, workplace, and

your own personal development


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The Future of Learning, accordingto popular media, and our Harvard

working group Globalization

The Biological Revolution

The Digital Revolution Lifelong Learning


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The Future in words

Out-of-the-box thinking

Flexibility, just in time responses

Going beyond the disciplines

Problem-centered teams Complex Hollywood style projects andproductions

Forms of nonlinear, systemic thinking

Beyond power point to Second Life, IM,Facebook, YouTube, Twitter etc!


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The Five Minds for the Future

The Disciplined Mind

The Synthesizing Mind

The Creating Mind

The Respectful Mind

The Ethical Mind


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Three Senses of Discipline

Working steadily and improving

Learning major ways of thinking: historical,artistic, scientific, mathematical (the task

of school) Becoming an expert in a profession, craft,

art, or end up unemployed or working forsomeone who is an expert (the task ofwork)


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The Synthesizing Mind

Scads of information, especially on the web

Largely undigested and unevaluated

The synthesizing imperative

Good, bad, and so-so syntheses Psychology (my discipline) has dropped the ball

Report to your CEO, CFO, CIO etc

From synthesis to strategy to execution


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Towards Synthesis (think termpaper, your first briefing for new

boss or new staff) Goal (your best guess of what the final synthesis will be

like)

Starting point (including earlier syntheses)

Gathering the relevant information, not too judgmentally

Method, strategy (epistemic frames/forms,schemas,including narratives, taxonomies, equations, maps,metaphors, images, systems, systems of systems meta-narratives, embodiments);

First rough draft

Feedback of various sorts Your best synthesis, pro tem-just in time


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The Creating Mind

Mastering one or more discipline-10 yearrule

Synthesizing what is known (the box itself)

Going beyond the known thinking outsidethe box, an imperative in the computer(algorithmic) age

Good questions, new questions

Robust, iconoclastic temperament The ultimate judgment of the field


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The Mini-Elevator Mini-Speech

Depth

Breadth

Stretch


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Two additional minds The humansphere (beyond cognitive in usual

sense)


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The Respectful Mind

Diversity as a fact of life, at home andabroad

Beyond mere tolerance

Need to understand others perspectives,motivation emotional and interpersonalintelligence

Inappropriateness of corporate, top-down

model for schools and perhaps even forcorporations!


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No Credit

Kiss up, kick down

Bad jokes

Mere tolerance

Respect with too many conditions


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Promising

Commissions on Peace and Reconciliation(more than two dozen countries)

Barenboim-Said Middle Eastern orchestra

Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Project (interculturalpenetration, transmission, syncretism)


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Ethical Mind

Higher level of abstraction than respectfulmind

Conceptualizing oneself as a (good)

worker Conceptualizing oneself as a (good)

citizen

Acting appropriately in both roles How this plays out in an educational or

corporate community


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Three Es of GoodWork

Excellent, expert, high quality

Ethical, socially responsible, moral

Engaging --meaningful, intrinsically

motivated


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A Study of Good Work in Youth

With disturbing results


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Giving Away Good Work- Oureffort to encourage ethics in the US

Traveling curriculum in journalism

Toolkit being used in American secondaryschools and colleges (liked by teachers as wellas students)

Course at NYU graduate level (Good work inthe global context)

Course in Colby College (Meaningful work in ameaningful life)

Reflection sessions at Amherst, Harvard College


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Mini Elevator speech

We respect those persons whobehave ethically.


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Elevator Speech to Pres.Obama

US dominated by 3 Ms (Money, Markets, ME)

Flip 90 degrees to the 3 Es of GoodWork(Excellence, Engagement, Ethics)

Flip 90 additional degrees to W We (Its notabout me, its about us, and you cant look toothers, YOU have to make the changes yourselfand work cooperatively with others)

In what ways, if any, does this presentationresonate with Finland today or tomorrow?


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The role of formal and informaleducation in nurturing five minds Awareness of these five minds

Examples from history or current events

Modelling and explicating positive

examples Calling attention to negative examples,with appropriate consequences

Our work in high schools and colleges

The ultimate challenge of personalsynthesis, especially for leaders (andthat is you!)


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Closing thoughts

From two wise Americans


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Intelligence plus character thatis the goal of a true education

Martin Luther King, Jr.


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Character is more important

than intellectRalph Waldo Emerson


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See also

Goodworktoolkit.org

Goodworkproject.org


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The Five Minds for the Future

The Disciplined Mind

The Synthesizing

Mind The Creating Mind

The Respectful Mind

The Ethical Mind

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