If you have read Victor Hugo ROJAS B's blog, you will see what stance he has taken on learning styles. If you haven't read his blog feel free to click and read,
http://victorhugor.blogspot.com/2009/05/learning-styles-theory-at-controversy.html
Now I agree with some of his views but others I don't. I agree with his views on how learning styles are a bunch of bits and pieces. All the learning styles that I have researched leave something out that another reputable professor or philosopher has included. When reading about learning theories or learning styles it seems that the author is biased about his views and that is what he writes about.
I don't agree that learning styles and learning preferences are different. I believe our learning style would be our learning preference. We usually don't know what our learning styles are. Usually we just know that we like to learn by watching videos, so we watch videos. If that is our learning preference then it is most likely our learning style.
With all this said, would it be beneficial to have an all encompassing learning style? Do you think when an instructor is in front of a classroom observing his students, that he actually becomes the philosopher that labels his students with his own learning style or theories?
Getting to this late, forgive me....
ReplyDeleteBut... Oh, wow! Great point about instructors using their own bias and beliefs to label a student's learning style, and treating them accordingly. Especially important if the instructor does feel strongly that one style is superior to another, as Hugo alluded to.
I hadn't thought about the fact that the assessment of not only the defining attributes of the learning style, as well the student's personal learning are all very subjective.
Good post.