Section 2: Back to learning

 

A reminder: Learning Theories, styles, strategies and barriers

View the PowerPoint presentation, ICT & Learning and use the resources below, in addition to any of your own, to refresh your memory on the different ways people learn, and the barriers they may confront.

The following table is a reminder of possible starting points:

Kolb (1984), Honey & Mumford (1982)	Experiential Learning
Howard Gardner (1984)	Multiple Intelligences
Benjamin Bloom (1956)	The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Fox, D (1983)	Transfer, Shaping, Travelling & Growing theories, Surface & Deep Learning
Marton and Saljo (1976) Biggs (1987, 1993) Stinson & Miller (1996)* Rhem (1997)	Surface & Deep Learning *“Sage on the Stage/Guide on the Side”
Piaget , Vygotsky, Papert, Bruner & Dewey	Constructivism
Carl Rogers , Abraham Maslow	Humanism
Ivan Pavlov, Robert Gagne & B. F. Skinner	Behaviourism
Hemisphere Dominance – various authors	Left/Right Brain theories
Gordon Pask	Holist, Serialist model
Malcolm Knowles (1978)	Andragogy See the Informal Education website (Infed) for a good overview [online] at http://www.infed.org/lifelonglearning/b-andra.htm

Practice Related Activity

1. Identify learning issues/barriers for a group/type of your own learners.
2. Identify a possible strategy which may be appropriate in overcoming the issues/barriers (without considering technology at this stage).

Resources

Atherton , J.S. (2003) Learning and Teaching [On-line] at http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/learning/contents.htm accessed: 08/07/2004

Blackmore , J. (1996) Pedagogy: Learning Styles [online] at http://www.cyg.net/~jblackmo/diglib/styl.html accessed: 08/07/2004

Biggs, J. (1987) Student Approaches to Learning and Studying Hawthorn, Vic : Australian Council for Educational Research

Centre for Advancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Western Australia (2004) Learning Theories, Processes and Models [online] athttp://www.catl.uwa.edu.au/NEWSLETTER/issue0100/processes.html accessed: 08/07/2004

Cooper , R. (2000) Teaching Strategies for Different Learning Styles [online] at http://www.outsider.co-uk.com/welcome/toolkit.htm accessed: 08/07/2004

McKeachie , W.J. (1995) ' Learning Styles Can Become Learning Strategies', in The National Teaching & Learning Forum, (4) 6, pp.1-2 [online] at http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9511/article1.htm accessed: 05/07/2004

Marton, F. & Saljo, R. (1976) "On Qualitative Differences in Learning — 2: Outcome as a function of the learner's conception of the task" Brit. J. Educ. Psych. 46, 115-27 

Meyer , A. (1998a) Glossary of Learning Concepts & Theory [online] at http://hagar.up.ac.za/catts/learner/ameyer/glossaryoflearningtheory.htm#Glossary%20of%20learning%20theory

Meyer , A. (1998b) Synthesis of Theories and Concepts [online] at http://hagar.up.ac.za/catts/learner/ameyer/synthesisoftheories.htm#Synthesis%20of%20theories%20and%20concepts   accessed: 05/07/2004

Montgomery , S.M. & Groat, L.N. (1998) Student Learning Styles and Their Implications for Teaching [online] at http://www.crlt.umich.edu/publinks/CRLT_no10.pdf accessed: 09/07/2004

Pilkington, R and Groat , A. (last updated 2003) Styles of Learning and Organisational Implications [online] at http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~lsl6/styles.html accessed: 05/07/2004

Rhem, J (1997) Deep/Surface Approaches to Learning: An Introduction. National Teaching and Learning Forum.

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