Intelligent participation: engaging citizens through a framework of multiple intelligences

Justin B. Hollander

Community Development, 2011, vol. 43, issue 3, 346-360

Abstract: Community development professionals tend to treat the public as monolithic and homogeneous, without respect for variation in types of intelligence among the citizenry. This research explored how the psychological concept of multiple intelligences can be used to enhance public participation in a public planning process. The research involved the development of a model of public participation grounded in the theory of multiple intelligence and a case study of the application of that model in a town outside of Boston. The findings support the premise that a multiple intelligence framework can bring in and elicit input from a broad and intellectually diverse subset of the population.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2011.621086

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