The Teacher-Researcher

While doing academic advising at Brandon University, I found that there were a lot of people with high teacher-researcher gifts in both the ranks of the professors themselves and also in the ranks of the students training for work in the upper levels of the public school system. The people are really into ideas and read a lot. If you want to know what their mind looks like, open up the table of contents of any textbook. It goes 1,2,3,, point a,b,c...They don't think that up, it reflects the way they think.

A perceiver friend of mine calls them "bottom feeders" because they tend to gather information that other people (perceivers) discover and assemble it for others. That is a bit harsh, but they are usually good at crediting where an idea originated. The Internet was originally established amongst the academic and military establishment for the easy exchange of information files, and still has the flavor of free access and interchange of information among those who really want to learn.

The problems I find to be the most annoying among this group are:

• the arrogance of the educated,
• the tendency of this group to make endless strings of "coined words" in order to lay claim to the articulation of some slight nuance of thought,
• the tendency to think that the "relative thinking" which assists them in their task of sorting ideas is the whole truth...e.g. that the perceiver's "right and wrong" extreems are illusery.
• That theirs is the only way to learn.

Comments I Have Heard Teacher-Researchers Make - Arranged By Theme

Over the years, I have used this model informally in my work, particularly with students, I have made note of the comments they have made about their own life experiences. These are summarized by theme on the following pages:

• What Teacher-Researchers Are Perfectionists About
• Teacher-Researchers' Preferred Ways Of Learning
• How Teacher-Researchers React To Obstacles
• The Conditions Teacher-Researchers Regard As Being Best Suited For Growth
• How Teacher-Researchers Take Action
• What Teacher-Researchers Get their Greatest Satisfaction From
• The Things Teacher-Researchers Are Quickest To Notice

The Basic Issue

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