Multiple Intelligences in Teaching Literature

• Authors: Monica Oprescu , Florin Oprescu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Discussing the conventional teaching of literature versus an alternative one, a new viewpoint is brought by Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences (1983). Considering that we have different ways of increasing knowledge, of learning, we thought of a way of developing these intelligences through literature: the practical approach refers to literary texts studied from all these perspectives.

Keywords

EN

alternative teaching; conventional teaching; literature; multiple intelligences

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 113-119

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-21

Contributors

author

Monica Oprescu

• University of the West, Timişoara

author

Florin Oprescu

• University of the West, Timişoara

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10319-012-0012-0