The Multiple Intelligences And The Children Art Education

Howard Gardner, American psychologist, put forward the Theory of Multiple intelligences in 1983. The theory influences the educational field with strong strength and becomes the theoretical basis of the educational and teaching reform in the world, and it certainly will influence the domain of children art education. This thesis examines the reform and development of children art education of China, hoping to help it.The first pan of the article analyses generally the study on intelligence at home and abroad, and summarizes the evolution process of the definition -"intelligence". The second part describes the Theory of Multiple intelligences and its ideas about art education. In this part, the origin of the theory is analyzed firstly: the result from the competition of science and technology, and limits of the traditional intelligence theory and test of IQ, especially whose educational perspectives is not adaptable to the overall development of students, which is the essential reason of emerging of the theory. Forthmore. the article expounds the theory, and discusses its perspectives on education and art education. The third mainly discusses the close relationship between multiple intelligences and art education, which benefits each other and serves a variety of activities. The fourth and fifth pans are the most important, which discuss and analyze the problems in children art education of China at present by comparing the educational views of the monointelligence theories and multiple intelligences theory and investigating the state of children art education. Meanwhile the thesis puts forward nine suggestions based on Multiple intelligences Theory in view of existing problems: 1. Promoting corresponding recognition and changing the educational concept; 2. Transferring dominant intelligence; 3. Exploiting children's intelligent potentialities by means of games and interest: 4. Enriching the contents and ways of art education: 5. Perfecting evaluation mechanism: 6. Changing teacher's role; 7. Advocating synthesis of subjects; 8. Emphasizing development of personality of all students; 9. Granding national art and understanding multiple cultures. In the end, the thesis concludes that with the continuous study on the theory of multiple intelligences and its view of education, our country's children art education will be more perfect.