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Culture and Learning Styles
Different cultures have distinct learning styles based on experiences and values
Classrooms typically support learning styles that are based on the Caucasian
American Culture
Educators can view these learning styles as inherent problems to the student
Collaboration with students who struggle to connect with traditional teaching molds.
With the goal of developing effective methods to address their individual learning styles.
Helping students discover tools they can use when their less desired learning style is
being used.
‘We do not have evidence of one best way to teach, just as we don't know of
one best way to learn.’
Game Time: PicCharaTaboo!
● We’ve split you into three teams
● Each team is racing the others in their own challenge game
● We’ll distribute a subject at the start of each round
● One person knows the subject and presents it in the style of the team game to
their teammates, who try to guess the subject
● First team to guess the subject wins the round
Reference List
Guild, P. B. (2010, October). Diversity, Learning Style and Culture. Retrieved from http://education.jhu.edu/PD/newhorizons/strategies/topics/Learning
Styles/diversity.html
Hispanic-American Students and Learning Style. ERIC Digest. (n.d.). Retrieved September 18, 2016, from
http://www.ericdigests.org/1996-4/hispanic.htm
Interest, B. S. (n.d.). Asian-American Children: What Teachers Should Know. Retrieved September 18, 2016, from
http://searcheric.org/digests/ed369577.html
Kolb, D.A. (1984). Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
Manolis, C., Burns, D.J., Assudani, R., & Chinta, R. (2013). Assessing experiential learning styles: A methodological reconstruction and validation of
the Kolb learning style inventory. Learning and Individual Differences, 23(1) 44-52. Retrieved from http://www.elsevier.com/locate/lindif
Schools on Wheels. (2010). What’s your learning style?. Retrieved from http://www.schoolonwheels.org/pdfs/3121/Learning-Styles.pdf
The culture/learning style connection (n.d). Retrieved September 18, 2016, from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educationalleadership
/may94/vol51/num08/Th-Culture~Learning-Style-Connection.aspx