Page No: 177-184
Walter Renner Christine Gabali Panch. Ramalingam
Pan European University, Stanford University, Pondicherry University,
Slovak Republic USA India
After introducing Carl Gustav Jung‘s theory of Psychological Types, the roots of which
partly go back to ancient Indian philosophy and its operationalization by the MyersBriggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the literature on their application in the fi elds of schooling
and education is reviewed. Some agreement about personality types of gifted students
was found, but there was little agreement with respect to more representative student
samples or to teachers‘ personality. With regard to the interaction of students‘ and
teachers‘ personality, some studies are in favour of matching students and teachers,
whereas others recommend learning from opposite types