A study on the impact of painting education on the spatial – visual intelligence of the pre – school children

Today, one of the newly introduced approaches in the educational system is thought to be the instruction based upon the theory of multiple intelligence proposed by Howard Gardner that is founded on considering the different aspects of intelligence among the individuals. . This study is aimed at investigating the effectiveness and the usage of special painting methods based upon Howard Gardner`s theory on the spatial – visual intelligence among the preschool children that has been taken into consideration with regard to both the history and lack of information. Methodologically, the study is of the experimental type with both experimental and control groups and the participants mainly consist of 36 students( comprising two groups of students) that educate in two preschools of Isfahan. All the students participating in the intelligence test known as " Raven " were classified in the pre- test and post-test groups in the experimental group , the painting instruction was conducted according to the components of spatial – visual intelligence in 15 sessions .The analyses obtained via ( through) the co-variance test demonstrated that the painting instruction has enhanced the children`s intelligence to a degree of 21% according to the features (characteristics) of spatial-visual intelligence. Likewise, the qualitative analyses conducted on the children`s paintings remarkably confirm the effectiveness of the aforementioned method, the research findings are indicative of the validity and the approved of the hypothesis and its effectiveness over the teaching methods in enhancing the extent of spatial-visual intelligence in the children