Learning styles

Learning styles refer to the (questionable) concept that individuals have different preferences and approaches when it comes to learning and processing information. The idea is that people may have a preferred way of receiving and absorbing information, and understanding these preferences can enhance the effectiveness of education and training.

Examples of learning styles include:

• VARK Model: Visual, Auditory, Reading/Writing, and Kinesthetic. This model suggests that individuals have a preference for one or more of these learning modalities.

• Honey and Mumford's Learning Styles: Activist, Reflector, Theorist, and Pragmatist. This model is based on Kolb's work and categorizes learners according to their preferences in learning activities.

• Learning Style Inventory

• Dunn and Dunn's learning styles

• Sprenger's Differentiation

Read more here:

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• Coffield, F. (2004). Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning: A systematic and critical review.

• de Mendonça, L., Vieira, R. R., & Duailibi, M. S. (2021). Learning styles and the myths surrounding it: a systematic scoping review of the literature. 

• Riener, C., & Willingham, D. (2010). The myth of learning styles. Change: The magazine of higher learning, 42(5), 32-35.