Guest Post by Kacee Quinelle (Author of Understanding Personalities Series): Personalities -- Resources for Understanding Them, Coping with Them, Benefiting from Them in Learning and in Life

 




Whether you slice the diversity pie into socionic types, MBTI types, or use one of the several other personality tests for your pie-cutting tool, the bottom line is that people differ from each other -- and some differ dramatically from each other -- which makes developing happy relationships complex. They also make teaching a class complex, leading a work team complex, commanding a military unit complex. Wherever there are people, complexities abound.

These complexities can be managed and even used to advantage IF one understands them. There is much literature on the MBTI; I will not go into that here.  As they say, just google it. What I want to do here is put readers to some excellent but little-known works (theory, observation, research) by specialists published by MSI Press LLC and available wherever fine books are sold -- and at 25% discount at its website, with coupon code FF25. Some of these use the MBTI as a basis of discussion, but most use the socionics model developed and highly respected in the East by the late Dr. Ekaterina Filatova.

The first book in English on the topic of socionics was a translation of Filatova's primary work, adapted for an English-speaking/American culture audience: Understanding the People around You. That book is written from the perspective of relationships in general and provides a test for determining type.

Kacee Quinelle is in the process of writing detailed, but small, books on each of the personality types -- how they work at home, at school, at work, in relationships, and in personal development. So far, four have been published: Understanding the Analyst, Understanding the Critic, Understanding the Entrepreneur, and Understanding the Seeker.

An application of personality type to teaching is provided in great depth in The Invisible Classroom by Dabbs and Leaver. Another, older, non-MSI book is Teaching the Whole Class by Leaver, published by Corwin Press.

I would also refer you to an interview that discusses the role of personalities in learning a language, conducted by the American Council of Teachers of Russian. The interviewee is the managing editor of MSI Press and the author of a couple dozen books, a few from MSI (including the one with Laura Dabbs.)

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