Learning styles

Learning styles

1. Howard Garner: 7 Learning styles

   • Visual: pictures, images, and spatial understanding.
   • Aural: Sound and music
   • Verbal: words, in speech and writing.
   • Physical: body, hands and sense of touch.
   • Logical: logic, reasoning and systems.
   • Social: learn in groups or with other people.
   • Solitary : work alone and use self-study.

2. David Kolb:4 distinct learning styles, based on a 4 stage learning cycle.

   • Four- stage cycle:
     • Concrete experience
     • Reflective Observation
     • Abstract Conceptualization
     • Active experimentation
   • Four- type learning styles:
     • Diverging (CE-RO)
     • Assimilating (AC-RO)
     • Converging (AC-AE)
     • Accommodating (CE-AE)

3. Peter Honey and Alan Mumford They adapted Kolb´s learning model.

   • They rename the stages in the learning cycle to accord with managerial experiences:
     • 1. Having an experience
     • 2. Reviewing the experience
     • 3. Concluding from the experience
     • 4. Planning the next steps
   • Then, they aligned the stages to 4 leading styles:
     • Activist
     • Reflector
     • Theorist
     • • Pragmatist
     • These are assumed to be acquired preferences that are adaptable, either at will or through changed circumstances.