TARKAN DÜZGÜNÇINAR, Editor
2025
The complex world of adult education presents many unique challenges. The most significant of these are a lack of motivation, low self-efficacy beliefs and learning difficulties. Additionally, the desire of adults to learn by actively participating in training and sharing their own experiences creates a new situation for trainers that needs to be understood. Instructors are expected to find solutions to all these issues affecting the quality of education. Education always requires embracing individual differences. If you treat every participant based solely on what you know, have memorised or seen from predecessors, you become indifferent to different personalities, learning styles and behavioural patterns, and fail to achieve the desired impact of the training. In order to manage these differences, it is necessary to first recognise them, learn their characteristics and understand how to interact with each one. I authored this book to guide instructors through the complex world of adult education. My aim is to offer simple solutions to the daunting questions you face: How can an instructor reach every participant, understand their needs, facilitate better learning, encourage participation and foster classroom harmony? Renowned as one of the personality tests used by Human Resources professionals in hiring, DISC offers a method that will make your job easier in this regard. DISC provides educators with a scientific yet highly practical approach to interpreting participants’ non-verbal communication, resolving conflicts in the classroom, tailoring lessons to learning styles and discovering your own teaching identity. This book takes you on a journey through the history of DISC and its modern classroom applications. It challenges the traditional teaching approach of trying to make everyone the same, which often prevents creativity, curiosity and individual potential from flourishing. It whispers to us: ‘Every individual speaks their own language. To understand them, y
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