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Fors, Vaike; Backstrom, Asa; Pink, Sarah – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2013
This article outlines the implications of a theory of "sensory-emplaced learning" for understanding the interrelationships between the embodied and environmental in learning processes. Understanding learning as multisensory and contingent within everyday place-events, this framework analytically describes how people establish themselves as…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Educational Environment, Sensory Experience
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Webb, Gertrude M. – 1991
This document presents a series of seven notebooks written to assist students at risk of becoming school dropouts due to learning problems. The notebooks explain what learning is, the student's role in the learning process, tools available to learners, how a particular student may learn best, which areas of learning need to be strengthened, and…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Style, Dropout Prevention, High Risk Students
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Eiszler, Charles F. – Education, 1983
Using 170 ninth-grade rural students, the study examined (1) whether modality preferences are a factor in student learning styles; (2) whether male and female students and students at different achievement levels expressed differing learning style preferences; and (3) how learning style characteristics relate to student self-concept and general…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Affective Measures, Cognitive Style
Roberts, Dayton Y. – 1975
The growth of interest in personalized learning, which emphasizes the realization and development of the self-concept in the learning process, prompted educators to combine the Jungian psychological theories of Perceiving and Judging with the personality types measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to form a model for veiwing community…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Humanistic Education, Individual Development, Learning Modalities
Hall, Arnita Rena – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this literature review is to look at brain research and its effect on educational practice. For the last several years, educators, parents and policymakers have become increasingly interested in the potential role of positive early childhood experiences in promoting a child's emotional and intellectual well-being (Ellison, 2001).…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Children, Brain, Multiple Intelligences