Personality and Success in a Russian University

ISBN-13: 9783639162974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 92 str.

Trevor Bremner

Opis

Does your personality influence your success as astudent? Over 40 years of research using theMyers-Briggs Type Indicator have shown thatpersonality type is one of a number of factors thataffect your choice of career, your learning style,and your success in certain subjects. The resultshave been widely applied in career counseling,executive team building, and education. Anunderstanding of personality type and learningstyle can make teaching and learning more effectiveby building on the students natural strengths andcompensating for natural weaknesses. In Russia, theSoviet regime established a highly effective systemof standardized education that extended across thecountry, and continues today in a modified form. Withfewer variables affecting student success, Russiais a great natural laboratory for such research. Thisstudy, conducted in collaboration withthe Dean and Philological Faculty at NorthernInternational University in Magadan, explores therelationship between personality type and success forstudents of English in the Russian Far East.

O autorze

Trevor Bremner is a consulting geologist with additional degrees
in Education and Slavic Studies, and an abiding passion for
Russia and its people, language, and culture.