The relationship between hidden curriculum of ICT and social intelligence of Student Teachers of Farhangian University of Yazd

Easy access to information, evolution in communication methods and the ability to use new educational tools have made technology to be used as a powerful tool in the teaching and learning process and to be effective in improving people's interactions and communications. So that affect the dimensions of curriculum and create the hidden curriculum of information and communication technology. Considering the importance of this curriculum and its key role in teaching and learning proceses is the purpose of this research work. it is investigates the relationship between this curriculum and the social intelligence of student teachers. The statistical population of this research work is male student teachers of Shahidan Paknejad Campus of Farhangian University of Yazd. Based on Morgan's table, 248 people were selected by stratified random sampling method, proportional to the size of the population. The research method is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of data collection. The tools of this research include the Tromso social intelligence and the ICT hidden curriculum questionnaires made by researcher. To analyze the data, inferential statistics of Pearson's correlation and regression analysis were used to check the significance of the difference between the two correlations. The results of study showed that there is a significant relationship between the predictor variable of ICT curriculum and the Criterion variable of social intelligence. Also, the results of statistical analysis showed that among the three components of social intelligence, only the component of social information processing has a meaningful relationship with this curriculum.