Learning Styles in a Culturally Diverse Classroom
| This site addresses both learning and teaching styles, and focuses on how to help teaching styles match culturally- based learning styles. | |
Cultural Learning Styles: Promoting Learning Within A Diverse Classroom |
A short paper - a good place to start. |
Crosscultural differences in learning styles of secondary English learners, Bilingual Research Journal, Summer 2002 by Park, Clara C. |
A research study that investigated the learning styles of English learners (Armenian, Hmong, Korean, Mexican, and Vietnamese) in secondary schools - with an emphasis on visual learning. Teaching advice included. |
| Cultural Learning Styles by Al Heredia, 1999. | A research review the theory on learning styles, the role culture plays within the theory, and the advantages and disadvantages of using culture as a means of understanding learning styles and their impact on teaching. |
| Cooperative learning on academic achievement in elementary African American males, Journal of Instructional Psychology, Dec, 2004 by Linda Wilson-Jones, Marlene Cain Caston | A research study that showed cooperative learning was primary among the factors promoting students academic success. |
| The Use of Learning Style Innovations to Improve Retention by Pamela Kramer-Koehler, Nancy M. Tooney, Devendra P. Beke, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York 11201 |
A study of learning styles by undergraduates that may have implications for high school students. "Black and Hispanic students are significantly more enthusiastic about cooperative learning, hands-on learning, and peer tutoring; and less enthusiastic about "traditional'' lecture-based teaching and learning. These students also show differences in learning style preferences as assessed by the Myers-Briggs Inventory." |
