Examination of Physical Education and Sports Teachers' Intelligence Areas Based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligence

Abstract

Whether inherited or acquired, intelligence has always been the subject of debate. Educators have accepted and widely applied Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligence. Physical education and sport is one of the most crucial teaching fields for individuals' healthy development and efficient education. The study intended to analyse the relationship among the multiple intelligence areas of physical education teachers and their demographic characteristics. The research universe consists of physical education and sports teachers working in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). By the stratified sampling method in the research, 168 teachers were reached out of 182 physical education teachers working in the 2019-2020 academic year. The Multiple Intelligence Scale adapted into Turkish by Babacan (2012) and the personal information data prepared by the researchers were applied in the research. While evaluating the data, the means and the standard deviations of the demographic characteristics of the research group were extracted. T-test, ANOVA, and MANOVA were used to determine group differences. Tukey and post hoc tests were used to define in which groups the differences were. The outcomes showed that the school teachers graduated from can affect intelligence. The findings also show that different factors can affect teachers in different ways.