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4.10.2 Myers-Briggs (MBTI)
According to Felder (1996), this model classifies students
according to their preferences on scales derived from
psychologist Carl Jung's theory of psychological types. Students
may be:
1. Extraverts (try things out, focus on the outer world of people)
or introverts (think things through, focus on the inner world
of ideas);
2. Sensors (practical, detail-oriented, focus on facts and
procedures) or intuitors (imaginative, concept-oriented,
focus on meanings and possibilities);
3. Thinkers (skeptical, tend to make decisions based on logic
and rules) or feelers (appreciative, tend to make decisions
based on personal and humanistic considerations);
4. Judgers (set and follow agendas, seek closure even with
incomplete data) or perceivers (adapt to changing
circumstances, resist closure to obtain more data).
The MBTI type preferences can be combined to form 16 different
learning style types. For example, one student may be an ESTJ
(extravert, sensor, thinker, perceiver) and another may be an
INFJ (introvert, intuitor, feeler, judger).
Myer-Briggs types do have similar practical implications for
education to the Honey-Mumford approach.
Sources :
Mcleod, S. A. (2010). Simply Psychology; , from
http://www.simplypsychology.org/learning-kolb.html
http://www.lifecirclesinc.com/Learningtheories/constructivism/kolb.html
http://changingminds.org/explanations/learning/kolb_learning.
htm http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Learning_style

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