{"id":760,"date":"2006-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=760"},"modified":"2021-07-25T17:41:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T16:41:49","slug":"learning-styles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/learning-styles\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning styles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always wondered about these, mostly because I&#8217;ve never had a result that pleased me when doing the test. An interesting wee bit in the <a href=\"http:\/\/education.guardian.co.uk\/egweekly\/\">http:\/\/education.guardian.co.uk\/egweekly\/<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/education.guardian.co.uk\/egweekly\/story\/0,,1827622,00.html\">Wrongly labelled<\/a> by Frank Coffield who say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Next time you see a learning styles questionnaire, burn it<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and goes on to report on some research on learning styles:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our reports reviewed, systematically, 13 models of learning styles and concluded that this area of research is theoretically incoherent and conceptually confused. I listed in the reports 30 dichotomies, such as &#8220;activists&#8221; versus &#8220;reflectors&#8221;, &#8220;globalists&#8221; versus &#8220;analysts&#8221;, and &#8220;left brainers&#8221; versus &#8220;right brainers&#8221;. We should stop using these terms. There&#8217;s no scientific justification for them. You can check that. Shake your head gently. Does the left hemisphere of your brain move independently from the right? Or do they seem connected?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Students need knowledgeable, vocationally qualified and caring teachers, who can enter into a dialogue with them about how to become better learners, as well as what it means to be a painter or nursery nurse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My own view of learning styles has alway been, some sorts of learning needs a particular learning style so we better have more that one we can use. And if we label a child a <em>this learner<\/em> or <em>that learner<\/em> is that any better than any other sort of labeling? Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/education\" rel=\"tag\">education<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/learning styles\" rel=\"tag\">learning styles<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"poweredbyperformancing\">powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/performancing.com\/firefox\">performancing firefox<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always wondered about these, mostly because I&#8217;ve never had a result that pleased me when doing the test. 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