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Re-Conceptualizing the Organizing Circumstance of Learning
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Spear Ellinwood, Karen Courtenay – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study explores the web-navigation practices of adult learners in higher education and re-conceptualizes the concept of the organizing circumstance of self-managed learning, originated by Spear and Mocker (1984). The theoretical framework draws on funds of knowledge theory from a cultural historical perspective and elaborates a Vygotskian…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Learning Experience, Internet
Students' Questions: Building a Bridge between Kolb's Learning Styles and Approaches to Learning
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de Jesus, Helena T. Pedrosa; Almeida, Patricia Albergaria; Teixeira-Dias, Jose Joaquim; Watts, Mike – Education & Training, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the types of questions that students ask during the learning of chemistry; discuss the role of students' questions in the process of constructing knowledge, and investigate the relationship between students' questions, approaches to learning, and learning styles. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Chemistry, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries
Kolb's Learning Style Theory Revisited.
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Cornwell, John M.; Manfredo, Pamela A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1994
Nominal-level analysis of 4 primary learning styles (doing, thinking, watching, and feeling) of 292 subjects (mostly college students) from the Learning Styles Inventory demonstrated their discriminant/convergent validity but not the validity of the learning-style types suggested by D. A. Kolb (1976) (accommodator, diverger, converger, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Students
Meeting Learning Needs through Multimedia: A Look at the Way Modern Technology Can Help Classroom Teachers Meet the Varied Instructional Needs of Students.
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Townsend, Frank C.; Townsend, Catherine M. – 1992
This paper builds a case for the use of multimedia to meet students' varied learning needs instead of relying solely on the traditional lecture/textbook/workbook approach. Piaget's theory of intellectual development is used as background for a discussion of developing teaching strategies based on individual learning styles, and various theories of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Chemists as Learners.
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Smedley, Leslie C., Jr. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1987
Reports on a study designed to provide a profile of the learning styles of members of the American Chemical Society. Indicates that chemists tend to be more alike than different in their approach to learning. Suggests that chemists tend to be convergers preferring active experimentation more than reflective observation. (TW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Chemical Industry, Chemistry, Cognitive Processes
Using Kolb's Learning Cycle to Improve Student Learning.
Stice, James E. – Engineering Education, 1987
Describes the learning style inventory and learning cycle developed by David Kolb. Discusses the learning cycle's four stages as concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. Offers an example from a chemical engineering class in which Kolb's ideas are used in an effort to improve instruction.…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Cognitive Style, College Science, Engineering Education