Mental models are the tacit assumptions, generalizations or images that affect
peoples behavior and actions. The educational system is influenced by
the mental models of teaching and learning held by teachers. There has not
been a study of teachers mental models that employs imagery as a tool for
deliberately elicting teachers mental models of teaching and learning. This
work explored the use of an imagery method: "Eliciting mental models" for
accessing and analyzing the images and mental models of teaching and learning
held by 16 teachers. In this study there seemed to be a relationship...