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Today as never before we need to comprehend the course, logic, and path of the process of history. Every day we need to make decisions that will affect future generations. It has become obvious that no single nation, confession, social class or even civilization can solve these problems on its own. We increasingly have to listen to one another: Europe and Asia, Christians and Muslims, White and Black peoples, citizens of modern democratic states and places where traditional society survives. The key is to understand one another correctly, avoid hasty conclusions, and acquire the true spirit of tolerance and respect toward those with different value systems, habits, and norms.
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Authoritarians v Non-Authoritarians. Entire strata of political ideological differences exist as a direct result!
Even in one of the quoted studies above, while it strongly states that the "Learning Styles" approach to education doesn't work, still states... The Problem is that educators and marketers of learning kits and tests, have done a piss-poor job of using this observed condition of humanity to actually provide better teaching methods. The various "Learning Style" approaches to schooling simply don't provide any benefit when you study the final numbers. -This according to the evidence from numerous solid studies.
And yet despite this, people DO learn differently.
Here's my personal thinking on the whole debate:
Providing Audio versus Visual teaching methods is to miss the point, and the endless study of which is better for whom is to study the wrong thing entirely.
Instructing is not what learning is about. Learning happens after the information has been provided, (either through pictures, words or audio tapes, or practical examples, etc.). Learning is based on motivation and on how much the student does which needs to be done in order to commit knowledge to useful memory. That's where what might be called individual learning styles come into effect.
Kung Fu is an excellent example. It can be taught by making students learn long series of patterns (Kick, block, punch, slide, bend, wave at sky, kick, step, Super Punch!), over and over until you can Simon Says the routine with perfection. -Or until you want to strangle the teacher.
The other method is to learn lots of little pieces, repeat those over and over, (block, block, block, block, etc.) and when you have a few dozen of these fixed in muscle memory, explore how you can put them together in an adaptable manner which fits with unfolding, unpredictable events.
Confucianism versus Taoism. (To be very rough about it.)
Some people are young souls with clean slates and they need a lot of direct instructions to follow or they will simply be lost and hopeless. Others have "been there, done that", already know a thing, but need to remember and continue working on a subject. They come with a deep internal compass and an instinctual understanding of what a thing should look and feel like when it is "right". Teachers need to provide the right amount and the right kind of information -and the space to learn- to prod each different person forward.
And students need to know when they are just being pissy and precious and should just buckle down and get to work.
From the quoted study: "Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence ~ Harold Pashler, Mark McDaniel, Doug Rohrer, and Robert Bjork " Identity Politics is a slippery beast.
Or is another 'rats in a cage' study taken outside life as it would be lived?
Joy-learning is completely different from being stuffed or trained to jump through hoops.
Learning takes place in a relationship. taken out of relationship you have a system of processes.
Welcome my son... welcome... to the Machine. . . . . .
Those lyrics brought me back to the mid-late 70's and a precise moment with my best buddy no longer with us.