Cultures and Learning Styles
Learning Styles
This unit considers the relationship between culture and learning styles. You will reflect on the cultural and creative influences that impact your own and others’ information processing and learning. Videos and prompts for reflection challenge your knowledge and application of the unit content.
Cultures and Learning Styles
Reading Materials
How Culture Affects Teaching and Learning
Authors: Glen & Grace Doris
Further Reading
Synthesis of the Dunn and Dunn Learning-Style Model Research: Who, What, When, Where, and So What?
Authors: Dunn, R. & Griggs, S. (Eds.) (2003)
Creativity and Learning
Reading Materials
Intelligence Cannot be Defined by Exams
Author: Peter Tait, The Telegraph
Changing Education Paradigms
Author: RSA Animate and Sir Ken Robinson
Further Reading
Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns
Author: Bateson, N. (2016)
Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative
Author: Robinson, K. (2001)
Self-Reflection
How would you rate your own culture in relation to high context and low context cultures? Consider what kind of information processing is promoted in the different cultures you have experienced in your home-country. Are these reflected in your own preferred learning style?
Have you observed any cultural differences in learning styles when travelling or meeting people from different countries? How might you need to adapt when working with someone from a different cultural context?
How is creativity promoted in your culture? Reflect on creative approaches to learning that have or have not worked well for you.
Unit 1: Introduction to Learning Styles
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Unit 3: Learning Styles in the Organisation
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