To Open Minds

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honours, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• * Prologue: A Long March to Creativity * An American EducationAt Midcentury * Conflicting Messages in the American Atmosphere * Imprinted on Cambridge * Resisting Professionalization * Two Sort of Careers: Project Zero and the VA Hospital * An International and Interdisciplinary Turn * China Experiences * First Visit to China * The First U.S.-China Arts Education Conference * The China Project * Three Educational Experiments, with an Unscheduled Trip to Taiwan * At LastOur Chinese Mission Accomplished * A Gadflys View of Some Chinese Arts Classes * Fitting the Key in the Slot: Five Perspectives on China * Reflections * Reflections in a Professional Key * Reflections in a Personal Key