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WELCOME
LEARNING STYLES AND LEARNING THEORIES
Gopala Y.M Ph.D Scholar
Dept. of Agril. ExtnUAS, Bangalore
LEARNING STYLE
Ellis (1985) defines learning style (or cognitive style) as the more or less consistent way in which a person perceives, conceptualizes, organizes and recalls information in other words the way you learn.
Visual Learners learn by sight
Auditory Learners learn by hearing
Tactile Learners (kinesthetic) learn by touch
LEARNING STYLE EXAMPLE
Different people will have different learning styles.
Eg: Bharath – gets bored with abstractions. Likes to discuss concrete problems and share ideas with other people.
Sharath – likes to read up on theoretical background and find the “right answer
WHY LEARNING STYLES?
Research shows that
Each learning style uses different parts of the brain.
By involving more of the brain during learning, we remember more of what we learn.
IMPORTANCE OF IDENTIFYING THE LEARNING STYLE
Learning styles have more influence learning.
Preferred learning styles guide the way student learn.
Learning styles also change the way learner recall
information, and even the words they choose.
THE SEVEN LEARNING STYLES
1. Visual (spatial): Prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding.
2. Aural (auditory-musical): Prefer using sound and music.
3. Verbal (linguistic): Prefer using words, both in speech and writing.
4. Physical (kinesthetic): Prefer using learners body, hands and sense of touch.
CONTI….
5. Logical (mathematical): Prefer using logic, reasoning and systems.
6. Social (interpersonal): Prefer to learn in groups or with other people.
7. Solitary (intrapersonal): Prefer to work alone and use self-study.
THEORIES OF LEARNING
There are many different theories of how people learn and it is useful to consider their application to how students learn and also how you teach in educational programs.
It is interesting to think about your own particular way of learning and to recognize that everyone does not learn the way you do.
WHY CONSIDER LEARNING THEORIES?
Designing and implementation Teaching and learning activities.
To understand individual differences among learners
To work towards including activities that have variety and interest for all the learners in educational programs.
To identify the learners interest.
LEARNING THEORIES
1. Sensory stimulation theory
2. Reinforcement theory
3. Cognitive-Gestalt approaches
4. Holistic learning theory
5. Facilitation theory
6. Experiential learning
7. Adult learning (Andragogy)
SENSORY STIMULATION THEORY
Its basic premise that effective learning occurs when the senses are stimulated.
Laird quotes research that found that the vast majority of knowledge held by adults
75 % is learned through seeing.
13 % is learned through Hearing
12 % is learned through touch, smell and taste By stimulating the senses, especially the visual
sense, learning can be enhanced. However, this theory says that if multi-senses are
stimulated, greater learning takes place.
REINFORCEMENT THEORY
This theory was developed B.F. Skinner.
Skinner believed that behaviour is a function of its consequences.
The learner will repeat the desired behaviour if positive reinforcement (a pleasant consequence) follows the behaviour.
Negative reinforcement also strengthen a behaviour and refers to a situation when a negative condition is stopped or avoided as a consequence of the bahaviour
COGNITIVE-GESTALT APPROACHES
The emphasis here is on the importance of experience, meaning, problem-solving and the development of insight.
Burns notes that this theory has developed the concept that individuals have different needs and concerns at different times, and that they have subjective interpretations in different contexts.
HOLISTIC LEARNING THEORY
The basic premise of this theory is that the
individual personality consists of many
elements ... specifically the intellect, emotions,
the body impulse (or desire), intuition and
imagination that all require activation if learning
is to be more effective.
FACILITATION THEORY (THE HUMANIST
APPROACH)
Carl Rogers and others have developed the theory of facilitative learning
The basic premise of this theory is that learning will occur by the educator acting as a facilitator,
Theory believes that human beings have a natural eagerness to learn,
The most significant learning involves changing one's concept of oneself.
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING THEORY
Kolb proposed a four-stage Experiential learning process.
Research found that people learn in four ways
Through concrete experience
Through observation and reflection
Through abstract conceptualization
Through active experimentation
ADULT LEARNING (ANDRAGOGY) :
This theory highlights that when adulthood arrives in the people they behave in adult ways and believe themselves to be adults.
Adult learning bring a great deal of experience to the learning environment;
Adult expects to have a high degree of influence on what they are to be educated for;
Adults expect their responses to be acted upon when asked for a feedback on the progress of the programme.
CONCLUSION
Discovering one’s learning style that can
lead to an increase in achievement and self-
confidence is very much essential for making
learning effective. Further, learning is an active
process and it cannot be passive. Hence
identification of learners interest through learning
theories is very crucial task on the part of teacher.
THANK YOU