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Thursday, May 23, 2002
http://www.trainingmag.com/training/reports_analysis/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1481063 Perfect Learner: An Expert Debate on Learning Styles Martin Delahoussaye ...Dave Kolb coined the term "learning style" to explain this preference. The assumption is that we are at our most efficient as learners when information comes in aligned with the way we want to receive it. Based on this assumption, a state of optimum learning—or pedagogical nirvana, if you will—can be achieved by identifying individuals, or groups of individuals, with similar learning styles, then constructing learning activities around the curriculum that correspond to their style. In common with almost all learning theories, a specter of doubt has lingered over this anodyne take on education and has done so ever since Kolb introduced learning styles to the educational vocabulary in the mid-60s. Over time, bipolar views have emerged: Either learning style theory is the closest we've come to explaining why a light can go on in one student's head, while another can exit the same class no wiser than when he or she entered, or the theory is too unpredictable to be of any real value to educators....
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