Howard Gardner

About

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His many books include Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences and The App Generation: How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World. This essay is reprinted with the permission of the author from the Professional Ethicist blog of The Good Project, a research activity based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Is There a Future for the Professions?

from Work in the Precarious Economy, Volume 18, Number 1

In the course of becoming a professional, a person is learning to fill a certain role in society.