#69153 - sajiimori - Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:01 pm
Nice link. I'm clearly a theorist, but I wonder if there's one learning style that's most common or appropriate for programmers.
#69157 - DekuTree64 - Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:46 pm
Thanks keldon, I love papers like this.
I'm sort of a pragmatist/theorist hybrid I guess. I learn best by reading/listening for a while and putting it to use immediately, but I'm not satisfied until I have some nice quiet homework to fully absorb what I learned and understand the details of how/why it works.
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#69188 - keldon - Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:52 am
Well there is a book by Honey and Mumford, one in 1991, and on in the late 80's. The first is a book on teachin teaching using the learning styles, the second is for the learner.
Some people are a mixture. There is also a theory using 2 learning styles with a combination of (I think) Pragmatist / Theorist and Reflector / Activist. There is also a 7/8 wheel learning style that makes use of about 5/6 learning attributes - but is fairly complex.
Another thing to note is that people enter different tasks in different learning styles. There is a learning cycle - which takes 4 stages, and each stage representing a learning style. Each stage compliments the next. The learning cycle - I think - is on page 41.