At one time or another, we’ve all heard “experts” assert that children have different learning styles. Some children, for instance, may be visual learners, while others best absorb information by ...

Michael Cholbi, a contributor to an interesting teaching philosophy blog called In Socrates’ Wake, reviews recent research discounting the influential theory that students have distinct learning ...

A robust industry has formed, marketing materials to educators for dozens of learning-style models. There are tools based on a learner's personality type. Others are based on how analytical or ...

In the early ‘90s, a New Zealand man named Neil Fleming decided to sort through something that had puzzled him during his time monitoring classrooms as a school inspector. In the course of watching ...

“I’m a visual learner, so I need to see it to understand.” How many times have you heard something like this? The sad thing is that many people cling to their learning styles talisman and impose their ...

A prevalent argument in the education research community is that learning styles hugely influence how well students will do in school. The learning styles theory argues that individuals learn best in ...

Drawing on the foundational theories of John Dewey and Kurt Lewin, we examine recent developments in theory and research on experiential learning and explore how this work can enhance experiential ...

A learning style theory [Kolb, 1971] has been used for theory building, research, and to provide pedagogical advice. Supporting evidence comes from an unreliable instrument designed so that its ...