Eliciting Mental Models- Teacher's Images of Teaching and Learning

Mental models are the tacit assumptions generalizations or images that affectpeople's behavior and actions. The educational system is influenced bythe mental models of teaching and learning held by teachers. There has notbeen a study of teacher's mental models that employs imagery as a tool fordeliberately elicting teachers' mental models of teaching and learning. Thiswork explored the use of an imagery method: Eliciting mental models foraccessing and analyzing the images and mental models of teaching and learningheld by 16 teachers. In this study there seemed to be a relationship betweenJungian psychological type and the content of both the imagery andmental models of these teachers. The literature review on imagery the MyersBriggs Type Indicator and mental models in relationship to teaching and learningshould be of interest to educators faculty development specialiststrainers and therapists. Researchers interested in the Myers Briggs Type Indicatoror in the imagery field may want to use the eliciting mental modelsprocess to further explore the relationship between images mental modelsand psychological type.