Abstract

This paper aims to determine the Turkish pre-service teachers’ image of multiple intelligences theory (MIT). For this purpose, a questionnaire was administered to a total number of 539 pre-service teachers still receiving education at education faculties of various universities in Turkey. The data gathered was analyzed with percentage, frequency and Chi-square test techniques. According to the findings, while the pre-service teachers find MIT scientific and useful, they do not approve of its featuring the theory of evolution. The pre-service teachers who do not know MIT sufficiently are pessimistic about its practicality in Turkey. Moreover, the pre-service teachers who think that the Turkish educational system is not independent are not uncomfortable with MIT, which itself is a foreign theory.

Key words: Pre-service Teachers, Multiple Intelligences Theory, Turkish Educational System.