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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Excerpt from The Arts, Young Children, and Learning, by S. Wright, 2003 edition, p. 86-87.
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