ERIC Number: ED628259
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-2348-8425
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Exploring the Less Explored Intelligences of Schools Teachers
Meena, Daisy; Lakshmi, Y. Vijaya
Online Submission, Satraachee v38 n2 p110-122 Jan-Mar 2023
In the formal education system, teaching-learning is a process where teacher is actively engaged in providing quality education to the learners. Teacher is the only one who can recognize and identify the unique capabilities of the students. In a diverse classroom, every student is different from others, keeping this in mind, a teacher has to design teaching-learning process as per the learning needs of the learners. One way of knowing and addressing the individual needs of students is by identifying and implementing theory of multiple intelligences in classroom. Research studies have shown that profile of multiple intelligences of a teacher has a direct impact on teacher effectiveness and teaching learning practices. Studies also claim that majority of the schools tend to focus mainly on two intelligences, those associated with academic intelligence, i.e., linguistic and logical/mathematical and teachers are low when it comes to intelligences like interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic and existential. Hence, the primary research question of this study is to explore about this less explored intelligences of the teachers. The present study is a cross-sectional survey study when the data about the multiple intelligences of 96 randomly selected teachers working in various schools of Delhi was collected using a pre-developed tool of multiple intelligences. The results of the study reveal that there is strong need to organize training programme to improve the multiple intelligences of the teachers. The findings also reveal that gender of the teacher has an influence on their multiple intelligences and female teachers scored better than male teachers in this regard. Also teachers from schools located in urban area were better in multiple intelligences than the teachers from schools located in rural areas. It was however observed that both government and private school teachers performed almost same and educational qualification of the teachers and their teaching experience did not have any influence on their multiple intelligences. The study also recommended about the scope of further research in this area of multiple intelligences.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: India
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