Lincoln Center Institute: Multiple Intelligences theory and arts education

This thesis takes a close look at Lincoln Center Institute and its history of arts education programs. Also included is an overview of Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences. This theory provides important contemporary insight into the different ways people learn. The study of Lincoln Center Institute shows that the arts play an important role in education. Three intelligences in Gardner's theory are directly related to the arts: spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, and musical. The Lincoln Center Institute programs help develop these three intelligences, and are therefore vital to a child's understanding of the world and their full intellectual development. The research relies primarily on documents from Lincoln Center Institute. Texts, thesis, and dissertations related to Multiple Intelligences and Lincoln Center Institute arts education programs are also used.