Exploration of teacher educators’ intelligence through the inventory of multiple intelligences theory:An attempt to identify the teaching style for better learning support

Abstract

Does teacher training provide suitable skills to provide the best education to students with different intelligence profiles? How do teachers perceive the role of multiple intelligences? These were two questions that this research tackled. The teacher educators in a Pakistani university were interviewed and the interview data were analyzed by using the thematic analysis technique. The analysis showed that TEs connected teachers’ teaching styles with how they perceived multiple intelligences. The findings of this study would be an addition to the existing literature on educational sciences by exploring, the most dominant and least dominant intelligence and teaching style of teacher educators according to their intelligence at the local, regional and global levels