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People's behavior often seems randomly varied
-- but, according to Carl G. Jung, it really follows patterns.
He called the patterns psychological types. One's type is
not superficial; it is deep in each person's make-up. It
is unchangeable as the stripes on a tiger. While we cannot
change our type, our basic way of processing experiences,
we can develop and gain maturity within our type.
People Types and Tiger Stripes gives
an explanation of how type shows up in everyday life, especially
in learning and teaching.
Topics of the book include:
- understanding type concepts
- recognizing your own type behavior
- using type to improve teaching and learning
- helping people make the most of the assets
of their type
The new topics in this third edition include:
- introducing type into an organization
- type and curriculum reform
- ethical pitfalls in using type and how
to avoid them
- stereotyping, how to spot it and give
it up
- practical ways of introducing type to
people
- exercises on adapting teaching styles
- consideration of the types as 16 distinct
kinds of mind
- deeper layers of understanding of type
theory
- more examples of using type in schools
and colleges
- type development and how to foster it
- summaries of research involving the MBTI
in studies of learning styles
Gordon Lawrence, Ph.D., (ENTP) turned
to writing and consulting full time in 1988, after 19 years
at the University of Florida as professor of educational
leadership. At Florida, and at George Peabody College before
that, his career focused on research, writing, and teaching
ways to improve teaching and instructional leadership.
His search for practical ways to make
schools more responsive to individual differences in students
led him to the MBTI in 1970. Since then he has taught thousands
of teachers and educational leaders about psychological
type. He has also conducted training programs about type
for many diverse organizations -- industrial, public service,
and educational. He has conducted studies and synthesized
the research of others dealing with the relationships of
type to learning and teaching styles. His book, People
Types and Tiger Stripes, first
published in 1979 is now in its third ed. (1993.) His newest
book, co-authored with his wife Carolyn, is The
Practice Centers' Approach to Seatwork: A Handbook.
It explains a program for elementary classrooms that is
responsive to the learning styles of all types.
He was the third president of the Association
for Psychological Type, and currently serves on the steering
committee that supervises the APT MBTI Training Program.
He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for
Applications of Psychological Type.
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