Nuket Gunduz

The Development of Multiple Intelligence with Storytelling

Abstract The present paper aims to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of curriculum for multipleintelligence development in preschool students based on constructivism through the storytelling methodology.The study was designed using a descriptive and experimental mixed methods approach. The experimental group forthe study consisted of 24 randomly selected five-year-old preschool students who were enrolled in public preschoolduring the year 2014-2015. The researcher developed a survey for “Implementations of Multiple Intelligences”, and video cameras and videotapes were used as data collection tools. A paired sample t-test and content analysiswere conducted in order to analyze the data from the study. The results indicated that the preschool studentsachieved a high level of development in linguistic/verbal intelligence, spatial intelligence, bodily kinesthetic andnaturalist intelligence areas through the use of the storytelling method. Furthermore, some positive effects werealso seen in the logical-mathematical intelligence, musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence and intrapersonalintelligence areas.