- Title
- Intrapersonal intelligence: supporting students in the English classroom
- Creator
- Sellars, Maura; Shukri, Sanber
- Relation
- International Journal of Learning Vol. 12, Issue 9, p. 307-319
- Relation
- http://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.874
- Publisher
- Common Ground
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2005
- Description
- This study investigated eight and nine year old children's capabilities to develop skills in the intrapersonal intelligence domain as defined by Howard Gardner. A group of twenty-seven, seven to nine year olds were introduced to a program specifically designed to foster their self-knowledge as learners and their self-management skills in the English learning environment. The students were introduced to activities that would help them to identify their own relative strengths and limitations and use this knowledge to negotiate a learning environment that would best suit their own learning needs. This program included developing skills in goal setting and identification of personal learning strategies. It also sought to improve work habits and student on- task behaviors and encourage self-monitoring, self-evaluation and self-reflection. The results obtained evidenced a considerable improvement in the students' self- knowledge and how this impacted on their perceptions of themselves as learners. The students grew increasingly aware of their own relative strengths and used this information to negotiate their learning environment, to identify strategies that worked for them and to take increasingly more responsibility for their own learning.
- Subject
- intrapersonal intelligence; literacy; self regulation; goal setting; student reflection; negotiating the environment
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34722
- Identifier
- uon:3661
- Identifier
- ISSN:1447-9494
- Language
- eng
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