The Enneagram Intelligences: Understanding Personality for Effective Teaching and Learning

by Janet Levine

Overview

First taught in the United States in 1971, the Enneagram is now used in counseling settings, corporations, university classrooms (including Stanford Business School) and other educational institutions. The Enneagram system is a model of human development which describes nine patterns of personality. Each type is distinct with its own point of view and focus of attention based on nine psychological strategies. Janet Levine, a long-term educator, and with many years experience using the model, has through research and refinement, pioneered an application for educators and students in their quest to facilitate teaching and learning. This is an in-depth description of the system, and a practical guide.

The Enneagram Intelligences pioneers a new field, a study of the impact of personality in education on both teaching and learning styles, and other areas of institutions—for instance, the faculty roles and rewards debate. The Enneagram model describes with great accuracy why we behave the way we do. The book is a practical guide to understanding personality and applying that knowledge in all educational dynamics. Through the words and observations of educators, we gain insight into the Enneagram. We can see and understand the 360 degrees of human possibility, and are no longer limited to our forty degree take on reality. This liberates us into a new understanding of ourselves and others, a new way of perceiving differences.

Levine's book does for personality and teaching and learning styles what other great innovations such as those of A.S. Neill, Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, John Dewey, Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs, and Ernest Boyer have done for education in general: move forward the frontier of understanding, shift the paradigm, change the perceptual lens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897895613
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/30/1999
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Janet Levine is an author, educator, and presenter. Janet has decades of published writing experience both as a book author and a freelance journalist. She is the author of five traditionally published works. For twenty-nine years (1986-2014) she taught in the English department at Milton Academy in Massachusetts. She leads workshops and presents programs internationally on the psychology of personality using the E-model. An anti-apartheid activist, she is an expert on South Africa and South African politics. The founder and leader of several successful non-profit organizations, in South Africa and the United States, Janet remains a committed activist for human rights. Please check out her website at janetlevine.com

Janet has published prolifically in magazines and professional journals over a decades long career as a writer both in the USA and her native South Africa. Her books are translated into several languages. Liv's Secrets (Armin Lear Press 2023); Reading Matters: How Literature Influences Life (Armin Lear Press 2022); Know Your Parenting Personality (Wiley 2004), The Enneagram Intelligences (Greenwood Publishing Group 1999), nominated for the 2002 Grawemeyer Education Award, Inside Apartheid (Contemporary Books 1988) and several other editions. Books reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The Boston Globe, and many other publications both paper and electronic.

Magazines and Journals: Freelance journalist with publications in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Yale Review, and, in South Africa, the only white journalist to have a column in a black newspaper, The Sowetan. Her work has appeared in many other journals and magazines. She writes book reviews for the New York Journal of Books.

Awards, and other miscellaneous information

Certification: Enneagram Professional Training Program (1994)
Awards: The Enneagram Intelligences nominated for the Grawemeyer Education Award (2001).
Writing residencies: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (x 2) and the Hambidge Center (x 2).
Fellowships: Invited fellow at the Radcliffe Intellectual Renewal Seminars for Leaders (2002, 2006, 2009)
Board Member: Arden Seminars (rtd)
Membership: Authors Guild of America, various online writers' groups, and the Southwest Florida Writers Association.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Background to the Enneagram System
The Enneagram Triads Personality Indicator for Educators
The Enneagram Intelligences In-depth
Enneatype Two: The Helper
Enneatype Three: The Performer
Enneatype Four: The Royal Family
Enneatype Five: The Observer
Enneatype Six: The Questioner
Enneatype Seven: The Optimist
Enneatype Eight: The Boss
Enneatype Nine: The Peacekeeper
Enneatype One: The Perfectionist
Attention Practices
The Enneagram and the MBTI
The Enneagram System—A Lens for the 21st Century
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

As an advocate for classroom application of the Enneagram system, Levine (English, Milton Academy, MA) details this personality typology of nine "intelligences" or worldviews (from The Boss to The Royal Family), its historical roots in mysticism and the teachings of Berkeley psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo, its triads personality indicator for educators, attention practices, relation to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and the system as a lens through which to view diversity for the 21st century. Refers to the First International Enneagram Conference (Stanford U., 1994). No Internet Enneagram website is listed though. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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