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Levine, J. (1999). The Enneagram intelligences: Understanding personality for effective teaching and learning.
Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey (320 pp., $24.95, cloth, ISBN-0-89789- 562-2; $59.95 hardcover, ISBN-0-89789-561-4).
The purpose of this book is to describe the nine personality worldviews of the Enneagram model and demonstrate the model's usefulness in the classroom as a new paradigm of nine "intelligences." For those not familiar with this personality system, the Enneagram is a model of nine patterns of thought, each a distinctive,way of viewing the world. The origin of the Enneagram is attributed to ancient Sufi teachings that describe nine points or personality types and the relationships among them (Palmer, 1991). According to the model, each person has one distinctive Enneatype, although a second Enneatype or "wing" can temper the manner in which the primary Enneatype is expressed. For example, an Enneatype One or "Perfectionist," may have her type modified by a Two-wing or a Nine-wing....