Putting personality type theories in the driver's seat

摘要

When teachers design their curriculum for the first time, what thoughts are going through their minds? What is the driving force behind what is decided? Hedges (1997) suggests four questions in terms of curriculum development: who to teach, what to teach, when to teach, and how long to teach. We know the questions and many of us know the answers for the most part. What drove any of us to make the decisions we did? Possibilities might have included our environment, our background or perhaps, in addition to those, our personality. There are many kinds of personality instruments. The basis of a more popular series are the theories by Carl Jung, in his book Psychological Type. From those theories, the mother-daughter team of Briggs and Myers developedthe Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Based upon Jung and the MBTI, David Keirsey developed his theories of Temperament, which lead to a more entertaining typology system called True Colors (True Colors Communication Group, 1998).