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Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence

Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
By S. Wright
Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall

This is the ability to solve problems or fashion products using one's body. Highly developed bodily-kinesthetic intelligence is exhibited by people such as dancers, athletes, surgeons, artisans, and musicians. Gardner (1993b) defined characteristics of bodily-kinesthetic intelligence as including:

  • Using one's body in highly differentiated and skilled ways, for expressive and goal-directed purposes
  • Working skillfully with objects, both those that involve the fine motor movements of one's fingers and hands and those that exploit gross motor movements of the body
  • Controlling bodily motions and the capacity to handle objects
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The Arts, Young Children, and Learning
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Excerpt from The Arts, Young Children, and Learning, by S. Wright, 2003 edition, p. 86-87.

© ______ 2003, Merrill, an imprint of Pearson Education Inc. Used by permission.  All rights reserved. The reproduction, duplication, or distribution of this material by any means including but not limited to email and blogs is strictly prohibited without the explicit permission of the publisher.

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