Relates the story of a ninth-grade student who worked to convince the school board to allow changes in policy to adapt to his best friend's strong reaction to bright lights which handicapped his friend's efforts to learn. Urges teachers to experiment with learning styles and add to the existing body of research. (SR)

Technology education students using distance technologies (n=27) did not display a significant correlation between attitudes and cognitive style. They were neither discouraged nor excited by toughness and pace of distance-learning activities. Slightly negative ratings of activities suggest that distance learning is convenient but system…

Learning-centered teaching links learning and development by creating a climate of exchange; using assessment to increase awareness of learning needs; promoting learning to learn; holding learners accountable; using multiple strategies for different learning styles; and involving learners in realistic and challenging goals. (SK)

Addresses two questions that may be unique to perceptual learning: What are the circumstances that produce learning? and What is the content of learning? Suggests a critical principle for each question. Provides a discussion of perceptual learning theory, how learning occurs, and what gets learned. Includes a 121-item bibliography. (DR)

This study investigates the learning styles of college majors using the Canfield model. Disciplines differed significantly regarding style. Students majoring in mathematics and science fell into the applied categories more often than those students majoring in humanities, social science, and education, who fell mainly into conceptual categories.…

A South Carolina high school received a three-year, $90,000 state grant to study a brain-based approach to helping students reach their full potential. Examination of faculty teaching styles and student learning styles revealed that only high achievers' learning styles matched their teachers' fact-based approaches. New programs and technologies…

Before instruction, 192 nursing students completed Kolb's Learning Style Inventory; 53.7% were concrete learners, 46.3% reflective. No significant associations appeared between learning style and age, sex, prior employment, or educational attainment. Methodological problems were found with using this instrument in nursing education. (SK)

Summarizes the Thinking-Feeling-Acting (TFA) behavior model typically used in counseling settings. TFA behavior orientation can be assessed formally with the Hutchins Behavior Inventory or informally using the three-point TFA Triangle. Presents classroom applications of the TFA system in the areas of student behavior assessment and student-teacher…

Responds to previous article's proposal to integrate first- and second-order therapies. Notes focus on deliberate ways to promote respectful stance in therapy. Considers limitations of intentional efforts and relationship of conscious mind to other natural orders of mind in living world. Suggests that therapist's deliberate efforts must be…

It is argued that the axes of the Learning Style Inventory and Learning Style Questionnaire are not conceptually aligned. More accurate comparison involves the degree of similar classification of learning styles, as illustrated in the modest but similar degree of classification for 44 graduate and undergraduate students. (SLD)

Community agencies must first understand the cultures for which they are programing, critique their current endeavors for learning style and point of view, and plan for inclusion of the culture(s) of their constituencies. (SK)

Investigates whether college students can improve their scores on cognitively based scales of the Inventory of Learning Processes (ILP) when using study techniques based on R.R. Schmeck's theory of learning styles. Finds no significant changes in terms of ILP scores for any of the groups. (PRA)

People growing up with powerful television images may have a preferred observational learning style that conflicts with standard classroom experiences. This article describes a college instructor's experience using the movie "Dead Poet's Society" to teach management and organizational behavior. Following a brief film synopsis, two…

Uses the learning in modern dance as a model for considering the differences in learning in the arts that is process rather than product oriented and relies on intuitive rather than scientific method for obtaining knowledge. (JOW)

Multi-age grouping, or exchanging traditional grade-level designations for teaching older and younger students together in one room, is as old as the one-room schoolhouse. Teachers comfortable with mixed-age classes are those who believe students learn by being active, engaged, and thoughtful, rather than by sitting passively or doing role…