Teachers Cultivating Future Minds Ⅱ: Self-awareness through Personality Typology Tests

Hiroshima Bunkyo Womenʼs University (HBWU), in 2014, implemented a course of once-a-month, 45-minute study sessions titled Ikushin Program プログラム「育心」—for the purpose of this paper to be translated into “Enriching the Mind Program” (EMP). The translation of the explanation of the EMP in the student handbook is as follows: 育心育人の精神に基づく他者への配慮，多様性への理解，自らの人間性の向上を通じて人間性あふれる豊かな社会を実現しようとする態度を身につけることができます。Based on the notion of “Enriching the Mind and the Self,” students can acquire the attitudes necessary to realize a rich and humane society through improving themselves personally, considering others, and understanding diversity. This is the second stage in an ongoing process toward finding a suitable EMP curriculum for Hiroshima Bunkyo Womenʼs University. Nevittʼs proposal is to have students take a different personality typology test each session, then talk about the outcomes of these tests and engage in other activities related to the types depicted in the tests. Section one recounts a first attempt to use typology. Unfortunately, various complications prevented a satisfactory outcome. Section two illustrates why it may not be possible to teach morality in university. Section three discusses typology. Section four relates the creation and results of a questionnaire to check student perception of and desire to learn self-awareness. In the end, too few participants and too low a correlation coefficient does not prove any of the hypotheses. Students do, however, indicate a strong desire to action regarding self-awareness. Therefore, the next stage for creating an EMP curriculum is to retry the typology sessions in such a way as to avoid the complications of the last attempt and revise the questionnaire based on the results of this initial survey.