Leaning style is a means of 'grasping the experience', which explain our approach to it, and choose a way to 'transform the experience' into meaningful way which defines our emotional reaction to the experience. Our learning style is a result of two choice decisions: how to approach a task - i.e., 'grasping experience' - longing to watch or do and emotional response to the experience - i.e., 'transforming experience' - to think or feel.
KOLB'S LEARNING STYLES - MATRIX VIEW
Kolb's learning styles is articulated in terms of a two-by-two matrix. The diagram highlights Kolb's terminology for the four learning styles; diverging, assimilating, and converging, accommodating: Doing(Active Experimentation- AE) Watching(reflective observation-RO)
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Diverging (feeling and watching - CE/RO)
People with diverging learning style view things in diverse perspectives. They are insightful and have broad cultural interests to gather information. They prefer to watch than doing, tending to collect information and use imagination to solve problems. They are finest at viewing concrete situations. Kolb called this style 'Diverging' because these people do better in situations that require ideas-generation. They tend to be inventive and emotional and strong in the arts. People with the diverging style desire to work in groups, listen with an open mind and receive personal feedback.
2. Assimilating (watching and thinking - AC/RO)
In assimilating learning style preference is for a concise, logical approach where Ideas and concepts are imperative than people. These people need clear explanation rather than practical opportunity. People with an assimilating learning style are more interested in ideas and abstract concepts choosing information and science careers.People with this style are less focused on people and attracted to logically sound theories than practicality. People with this style prefer reading, thinking and exploring analytical
This tool states that learning is made up of four basic phases, which includes diverging, assimilating, converging, and accommodating, that gives one a better understanding of how they learn. The booklet claims that learning can be cyclical and four basic phases. These learning phases are described as a concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. The assessment asserts that knowing about your learning style can help you better understand how to maximize your learning, solve problems, work in teams, manage conflict, making career choices and how to improve
Psychological learning style elements relate to global versus analytical processing. The construct of field dependence/independence is a component of this learning style. Field dependent individuals are more group-oriented and cooperative and less competitive than field independent individuals. Research generally has indicated that Mexican- American and other minority students are more field dependent than nonminority students. Studies have found that Hispanic middle and secondary school students were more field dependent than Anglo students; Hispanic female (and African-American male) students had a greater internal focus of control than other groups; and Hispanic male (and African-American female) students had a greater external focus of control than other groups.
I found Kolb's (1984) model of experiential learning a useful way to summarize the process if individual learning. The cycle begins when we each experience the world through our senses. Kolb calls this step ‘concreate experience', to indicate that he does not mean the various experiences we have through books or plays, but real-world experiences. Examples of concrete experience could be as varied as sitting through a boring meeting or suffering the distress of losing a job. Kolb suggest that to learn from our experiences we must engage in a second step of consistency reflecting on what has occurred. This step he calls ‘reflective observation'. We are able to reflect on much less than what occurred in the actual experience. Reflection is selective and influenced by our expectations. The third step in the learning cycle is making sense of what we have experience. In other words, ‘abstract conceptualization'. The final step in Kolb's model is ‘active experimentation'. At this step, we test out the meaning that we have constructed by taking action in the world – which then leads to new experiences. Kolb has shown that over time we tend to get more proficient at some steps of the process that at others, thus we develop a learning style preference. Kolb has noted all the steps are necessary, the smallest alteration to any of these steps can make the learning process less
And there is a four-type definition of learning styles: 1. Accommodators (CE/AE) 2. Divergers (CE/RO) 3. Assimilators (AC/RO) 4. Convergers (AC/AE)
Learning is a process that individuals face every day, whether it is in classroom, at work, or surfing the Internet, but each person has a particular style in which they prefer to accomplish this learning. An individual’s learning style is the manner in which that person finds learning to be the easiest for them, and while many individuals have a primary style, everyone uses all the learning styles in various combinations throughout their day and life.
Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) is a four part learning process that contains both behavioral and cognitive theory aspects (Spector, 2016). Behaviorism is defined by observing a learner’s actions and reactions to their environment to explain learning (Spector, 2016). According to Jonassen, behaviorism only focuses on what the learner can do and how behavioral dispositions are shaped by selective reinforcement, but behaviorism doesn’t include the learner’s mental capabilities (Objectivism versus constructivism: Do we need a new philosophical paradigm?, 1991). The basic concept of ELT is “learning by doing”. This concept is similar to Papert’s constructionism.
The Learning Styles. What's Your Learning Style?
Honey, P. & Mumford, A. (2006). The Learning Style Questionnaire 80-item Version. London: Pearson Assessment.
Learning styles and techniques differ for each person based on their capability to analyze process and memorize information. VARK is a model that provides insight on an individual’s learning styles. The VARK learning style is a theory developed by Neil Flaming in 1987. He designed VARK as a questionnaire so users can identify and make a profile of their own preferences of learning. (VARK, 2015) “It is a learning style guide that helps people to identify and reassess their study habits. According to Fleming, every type of learner has unique academic strengths and weaknesses. The main determination between a weak student and a strong student is the environment in which they are taught. ("Learning styles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia," n.d.)”
Anderson (2011) suggests that a dual learning style has an important role in the development of skills. Using learning styles allows the student to understand how they work best and what their preferred learning style is. However learning style theories have been criticised extensively by many, there are many educational psychologists who believe that there is little evidence for efficacy of most learning styles models. According to Greenfield (2007) the practice is “nonsense” from a neuroscientist point of view. Furthermore Henry (2007) believes “Humans have evolved to build a picture of the world through our senses working in unison, exploiting the immense interconnectivity that exists in the brain” (Henry, 2007).The foundation of being a good mentor is building a good working relationship with the student (Walsh, 2014). The student – mentor relationship is crucial to the students learning throughout the placement (Wilkes, 2006). All mentors when working with students must have effective professional and inter-professional working relationships which will enable and enhance to support the learning for students. Part of the skills required maintaining the relationship with students and the multi professional team include; being organised, prioritising, providing ongoing support and constructive feedback and being able to liaise with other
In this essay I will be describing various types of learning styles and stating the advantages and disadvantages of these learning styles. I will also inform you of the most commonly used method of finding out your own learning style, and I will inform you of the man who made this method. Finally, I will write about my own preferred learning styles and the strengths and weaknesses of the different learning styles.
Kolb identified four stages, with each stage providing a step of experiential learning (Experiential Learning, 2007). Kolb maintained that not all learners and learning styles are the same and therefore, educators should avoid grouping people into a specific learning style (Vinales, 2015). Kolb’s experiential learning model creates a learning style that emphasizes not only the importance of reflecting on one’s experiences, but also learning from those
Weinstein, A., Witte, J., & Willingham, D. (2013, November 1). Are Learning Styles a Myth?
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Thought out our lives, we are faced with many different learning experiences. Some of these experiences have made a better impact than others. This can be attributed to everyone’s different multiple intelligences or learning styles. A persons learning style is the method though which they gain information about their environment. As a teacher, it is our responsibility to know these styles, so we can reach each of our students and use all of the necessary methods.