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The Enneagram Intelligences: Understanding Personality for Effective Teaching and Learning

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While the audience aimed at for this book appears to be educators, Ms. Levine's book on the enneagram is valuable for a wider audience. As she points out, we are all teachers and students in many aspects of our lives, and The Enneagram Intelligences give a clearer picture on how to effectively communicate and convey ideas, and how to understand the biases of ourselves and our students that can help or hinder this process.

Ms. Levine uses the "oral tradition" of enneagram presentation by using real people to describe their type and how it affects their perspectives on learning and living. I personally found her many descriptive examples of the characteristics of each type to be quite illuminating on identifying and understanding the worldview of each of the types. Her examples are much clearer than those in Helen Palmer's works, probably because Ms. Levine focused specifically on the area of education and learning styles. I especially gained insight on how my own enneastyle filters my perceptions and actions.

This book is especially valuable as a general work and as a reference guide to be referred to many times. I highly recommend it!

Janet Levine has performed a significant service to teachers and learners of all types with this remarkable book. The author remains true to the oral tradition of Enneagram teaching, as she allows teachers and students of each type to speak in their own words about their thoughts, feelings and sense of themselves in the world. For people encountering the Enneagram for the first time, the energies and strategies of each type come alive in these pages, as the workshop experience of hearing panels of each type speak, is captured and encapsulated on these pages.

Teachers of all ages can delve right in, finding ways to apply insights from the Enneagram, an elegant, accurate model of nine personality types, in their professional lives. As we interact with colleagues and with students, the Enneagram forms a framework for exploring our core assumptions, motivations and reactions to situations. As Janet Levine presents these strategies, the Enneagram emerges as a vivid "tapestry" of human behavior that encompasses many facets of our whole personality. Our Enneagram Intelligence includes cognition, the ways we acquire and process information, and extends beyond this into the ways we live our lives.

As a teacher, researcher and author who is applying the Enneagram in her practice, Janet Levine brings experience, understanding, passion and compassion to the work she describes in this volume. As a pioneer in this field, she informs and inspires readers to take insights from this book forward to design their own educational experiments and transform classroom dynamics. As Levine writes, "The Enneagram model is playing a part in the revolution in education." (p. 282) Let this book sharpen your self-awareness and expand your vision, as you gaze into the Enneagram, a "lens for the 21st century."

Janet Levine's recently published book entitled "Enneagram Intelligences" is must reading for teachers and educators who want to reflect on their teaching praxis and on the influence of their own and their students' personalities on the common endeavour of teaching and learning in which they are engaged. The book has already had a major impact on the teaching staff of my school. I have been reading Enneagram studies for several years now and have attempted to make this powerful personality technology available to the teachers on my staff. My efforts have not always proved successful. After reading Levine's book, I decided to use her particular application of the Enneagram in structuring a workshop for my staff. The results were wonderful. The book's stress on the Enneagram from a teaching perspective spoke very eloquently to those who define themselves primarily as teachers. Unable to decide on an Enneagram point for months, many teachers responded immediately to the characterizations in "Enneagram Intelligences" and were able to define themselves in the typology and arrive at a better understanding of their teaching strategies. Particularly useful are the interviews with various teachers as well as the short section on different grading strategies employed by the nine Enneatypes. The examples of different Enneagram strategies chosen by Ms. Levine are excellent. They speak directly to teachers and make this personality technology accessible and revelatory. The book has an immensely practical and immediate application in teaching. The sections that deal with the very different ways that students approach learning and especially assessment based on their Enneagram style had a profound effect on the teachers to whom I introduced her work. A number of them have placed orders for the book. We are exploring ways of making Ms. Levine's work on Enneagram Intelligences the focal point for a renewal of our school culture. This is an excellent book about a powerful new way of understanding the role of personality in teaching and learning.

Janet Levine's book, "The Enneagram Intelligences" is a very welcome addition to the world of education. I found the material comprehensible, very readable, and applicable to all levels of education from grade school to corporate training. I highly recommend the book to all my corporate clients.

Janet Levine's book, "The Enneagram Intelligences" is a very welcome addition to the world of education. I found the material comprehensive, very readable, and applicable to all levels of education from grade school to corporate training. I highly recommend the book to all my corporate clients.

As an educator, understanding my learning and teaching style can help me assist students more effectively. I have read many other books about teaching, and learning styles but none with such a fresh and unique approach to the topic. The expanded self-knowledge I have gained as a result of using the information contained in the book has helped me improve my teaching!

Janet Levine has performed a significant service to teachers and learners of all types with this remarkable book. The author remains true to the oral tradition of Enneagram teaching, as she allows teachers and students of each type to speak in their own words about their thoughts, feelings and sense of themselves in the world. For people encountering the Enneagram for the first time, the energies and strategies of each type come alive in these pages, as the workshop experience of hearing panels of each type speak, is captured and encapsulated on these pages.

Teachers of all ages can delve right in, finding ways to apply insights from the Enneagram, an elegant, accurate model of nine personality types, in their professional lives. As we interact with colleagues and with students, the Enneagram forms a framework for exploring our core assumptions, motivations and reactions to situations. As Janet Levine presents these strategies, the Enneagram emerges as a vivid "tapestry" of human behavior that encompasses many facets of our whole personality. Our Enneagram Intelligence includes cognition, the ways we acquire and process information, and extends beyond this into the way we live our lives.

As a teacher, researcher and author who is applying the Enneagram in her practice, Janet Levine brings experience, understanding, passion and compassion to the work she describes in this volume. As a pioneer in this field, she informs and inspires readers to take insights from this book forward to form their own educational experiments and transform classroom dynamics. As Levine writes, "The Enneagram model is playing a part in the revolution in education." (p. 282) Let this book sharpen your self-awareness and expand your vision, as you gaze into the Enneagram, a "lens for the 21st century."