The Influence of Activities Carried Out in Drama Course at The Undergraduate Program of Pre-School Teacher Education on Teacher Candidate’s Areas of Social Intelligence

Undergraduate programs at the faculty of education are changing and developing from time to time according to the needs of societies and the changing world as well as in light of the aims of the Ministry of National Education. However, some courses and contents in particular have been included in all of the programs because of their specific features that need to be covered in all programs, are not influenced by time and needs, and support children’s basic development constantly and directly. Drama course is one of the courses in the undergraduate program of preschool education that supports children’s development directly and always keeps it currency. Today, while drama education is often provided by various professional courses, it is still one of the courses that teacher candidates consider important during their undergraduate studies in preschool teacher education at the faculty of education. In this research, the activities carried out in the drama course and their impacts on the areas of social intelligence are investigated through 114 preschool teacher candidates’ opinions. For this purpose, the social intelligence section of the multiple intelligences inventory is utilized in this research. Poor experimental design is adopted in this study and the data are obtained with pre-test and post-test. According to the results of the study, drama course has positive effects on teacher candidate’s social intelligence.