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All Hail Bloom and Gardner

October 28, 2008

Ever heard of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences? Well I can tell you that they are both well recognised educational theorists. Gardner could be credited with revamping the way in which we teach, targeting a range of different intellectual needs from students. Technology can be utilised well through the application of Gardner’s multiple Intelligences, as teachers change their old methods of teaching. Bloom seems to have taken over the role of assessment king as every marking criteria I have seen so far in my blossoming teaching career refers to the Bloom’s Taxonomy. Whether it be teaching or studying in my KLA of Business Studies, Commerce or Economics, I feel like a stranded surfer continually pounded by the waves of ‘Bloom and Gardner’. It feels as though there are only two educational theorists out there as both Bloom and Gardner continue their rein as the new Kings of education.

What if they got it wrong? Gardner has never been able to clearly validate his findings for multiple intelligences and has been criticised by numerous other educational theorists such as Sternberg. Additionally the application of Blooms Taxonomy to grade the results of yet another standardised test may not be benefiting students. Have we thrown all our educational eggs in the one basket? Again I ask what if they got it wrong???

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