Learning Styles

Learning styles

In this essay we are going to research learning styles. We will use such sources as the internet, text books and journals to help us to bring together the thoughts of the theorist on the subject. Using the information from the theorist we will show that we have an understanding of the theories by describing our own learning styles. We will also compare the similarities and differences in our own personal styles and how we can help each other to develop our learning styles during our studies

To help us understand the process of learning we have researched and studied three different author’s comments, theories and general ideas about learning styles. These three key ideas are from David Kolb, Honey and Mumford and Craik and Lockhart.

Firstly we looked at Kolb’s theories on learning styles. Kolb looks upon learning as a continuous process (Cameron, 2003). When a person performs an action, they reflect on that action and think about what just happened. They...