Learning Style & Learning Theory
Learning Style & Learning Theory
Learning Style & Learning Theory
LEARNING THEORY
❖Extraversion/Introversion E/I
❖Sensing/Intuiting S/N
❖Thinking/Feeling T/F
❖Judging/Perceiving J/P
EXTRAVERSION/INTROVERSION
(SOCIAL ORIENTATION)
❖Extroverts
• Like talking with others and taking action.
• Prefer active learning and group projects.
❖Introverts
• Prefer to have others do the talking.
• Prefer lectures and structured tasks.
SENSING/INTUITING
(INFORMATION PROCESSING)
❖Sensors
• Are most at home with facts and examples.
• Are drawn to realistic and practical applications.
• Prefer memorizable facts, and concrete questions.
• Intuiters
• Prefer concepts and theories which can give greater play to imagination
and inspiration.
• Prefer interpretation and imagination.
THINKING/FEELING
(DECISION MAKING)
❖Thinkers
• Like to take an objective approach and emphasize
logic and analysis in their decisions.
• Prefer objective feedback, and thrive when there is
pressure to succeed.
❖Feelers
• Prefer emotion to logic.
• Give greater weight to the impact of
relationships in their decisions.
• Prefer positive feedback and individual
recognition.
My mind is
JUDGING/PERCEIVING made up!
Don’t confuse
(ACHIEVING GOALS) me with facts.
❖Judgers
• Prefer clearly defined strategies to
achieve goals.
• May jump to closure too quickly.
• Prefer orderliness, structure, and
deadlines.
❖Perceivers Let’s think this through
• Like to consider all sides to a problem
and may be at some risk for not
completing their work.
• Prefer spontaneity and flexibility.
HOWARD GARDNER (1982), “MULTIPLE
INTELLIGENCES” THEORY:
❖Behaviorism
❖Cognitivism
❖Constructivism
❖Connectivism
BEHAVIORISM
❖The behaviorists learning is a mechanical
process of associating the stimulus with
response, which produces a new behavior→
JB Watson, Ivan Pavlov
❖The learner as a passive person who
responds to the stimuli.
❖Nature of reward, punishment, stimuli
❖Lecture-based, highly structured
COGNITIVISM
❖the study of the mind and how it obtains,
processes, and stores information.
(Stavredes,2011)
❖ learners are active participants in their
learning, and the mind functions like a
computer processor.
❖ suited well for problem solving
❖ Knowledge is stored
cognitively as symbols
CONSTRUCTIVISM
❖The study of a learner's own construction of
knowledge
❖Social constructivism → Lev Vygotsky
❖cognitive constructivism→ Jean Piaget-
knowledge
is constructed by either assimilation or
accommodation.
Learners may collaborate with
others to organize their ideas and learn from
each other to construct their own
knowledge.
CONNECTIVISM
❖A learning theory, in which knowledge exists
outside of the learner.
❖The learner makes connections between
information to build knowledge.
SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY (SLT)