Multiple Intelligences Represented in Fourth Grade Curriculum

Ahmet Oğuz Akçay

Multiple Intelligences Represented in Fourth Grade Curriculum

Year 2018, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 78 - 93, 01.10.2018

Abstract

In this study, the 4th grade Texas Everyday Mathematics teacher guide (2a) curriculum was focused on to investigate how many multiple intelligences were represented in the 4th grade curriculum. Six intelligence were the focus: visual-spatial intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, and naturalist intelligence. Verballinguistic, mathematics-logical, and existential intelligences were not the focus. To investigate the 4th grade teacher’s guide Texas Everyday Mathematics curriculum Multiple Intelligences Theory checklist (created by the researcher) and Multiple Intelligences Theory chart (created by the researcher based on literature) were used. The researcher read the entire lesson, sentence by sentence, and coded any occurrence of multiple intelligences within each section heading. For each sentence, the researcher considered whether multiple intelligences were present, and, if present, the researcher used the curriculum Multiple Intelligences Theory reference chart to identify the type of multiple intelligences. To check the reliability of this study, two experts, - other than the researcher, assessed the presence and category of multiple intelligences in the curriculum. All coding questions were discussed between researcher and raters until reaching consensus. According to the findings, visualspatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences were represented in the Texas Everyday Mathematics fractions unit which is a good example of represented Multiple Intelligences Theory activities

Keywords

Multiple Intelligences, fourth grade, curriculum, elementary education, fractions, textbooks

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