Mental models are the tacit assumptions, generalizations or images that
affect people's 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 teacher's 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 between
Jungian psychological type and the content of both the imagery and
mental models of these teachers. The literature review on imagery, the
Myers Briggs Type Indicator and mental models in relationship to
teaching and learning should be of interest to educators, faculty
development specialists, trainers and therapists. Researchers interested
in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator or in the imagery field may want to
use the "eliciting mental models" process to further explore the
relationship between images, mental models and psychological type.