Inteligencias interpersonal e intrapersonal en los estudiantes adolescente tempranos en Cuenca

Abstract

This undertaking focuses on views related to the new information on Intelligence we have so far, based on Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory. This investigation highlights the Interpersonal and Intrapersonal performance of the pre-teen eighth graders in several schools of Cuenca. The heart of our research deals with: a) Teenagers, features and sub-phases, b) Intelligence, implications and notions, c) Multiple Intelligence: Interpersonal & Intrapersonal, attributes and its effect on education; hence emotional intelligence is key to a sound and wholesome development of the teenager. We have aimed for a descriptive analysis, with a quantitative-qualitative outcome, conducting surveys on student counselors and teachers of six secondary schools in Cuenca. We also polled 10% of the grade eight populations of the six schools and examined their personal files. The aftermath of the probe suggests that while traditional intelligences such as Mathematical and Linguistic tend to prevail over the educational context of the city, there are few if any courses of action being taken to encourage Interpersonal & Intrapersonal Intelligence schemes within the classroom, one of the main reasons points to the lack of or little teacher training on the new theoretical approaches, and if they are considered, they will be held as secondary forms of grading rather than teaching skills or strategies themselves.