Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence ("body smart")
“We are all able to know the world
through different intelligences” Howard Gardner
According
to Howard Gardner, this type of intelligence coincides with “One’s bodily
motions, the capacity to handle objects skillfully, sense of timing, a clear
sense of the goal of physical action, and the ability to train responses”. We
have exhibited and developed this intelligence in many different activities in
Lavigerie house, ranging from sports which are very vivid, to making things.
Sometimes we are unaware of the fact that we are developing our intellectual
capacities. This could be because we sometimes execute our duties to fulfill
obligations or perhaps for sake of leisure, which is as well important. It is
profoundly important to be aware and to bring to consciousness the
possibilities that enhance our holistic human development, and to engage in
them seriously and meaningfully as training for life.
Take
examples of our sports like football, basketball and volleyball; we submit
ourselves to bodily discipline. We develop the capacity to focus, to control
our emotions when there is a bust of energy, to persevere when there is a loss,
and not to be over concern of wining to but develop a sense of interaction in
love and compassion with the opponents; which actually is one of the aims of
sports in our context. We accept our mistakes and amend to correction (a sense
of humility). We develop the skill to manipulate objects like the ball with kin
attention. We also develop the ability to time, for instance when planning for
the game (when to play), when making substitutions, and as well when shooting a
ball, etc.
- Cobbling shoes; moving the cobbling needle around the shoe or the ball is not just an obvious action. One needs to train for and give his time doing it, and above all it demands care so as make something nice. Another example is:
- Art and design: one cannot wake up from sleep one day and beginning drawing a nice picture like that of a pelican feeding its young with its own blood, or design a sign post like that you notice as you enter Lavigerie house.
- Cooking: in Lavigerie house we students cook on Sunday evening, and we also have barbeques in which the entire community is involved. There are people who are experts in organizing, they know which type of food goes with the other, and there are those who roast for the community, make a cake and so on. All these require an aesthetic eye which may not be in everyone.
- Entertainment: During occasions we entertain ourselves in so many ways, for instance by dancing; it so amazing to see the way someone twists himself when inducing a style. In acting and singing it is interesting to experience extraordinary imaginations and mimicry in our minds. These are all works which the body registers and masters.
Nicholas
Iwuala
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