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Learning Strategies and Learning Styles

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Ronald Ray Schmeck

    1. Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA

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Part of the book series: Perspectives on Individual Differences (PIDF)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  3. Applications of the Concepts of Strategy and Style

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Context and Strategy

      • Paul Ramsden
      Pages 159-184

    3. Approaches to Learning and to Essay Writing

      • John Biggs
      Pages 185-228

    4. Style, Strategy, and Skill in Reading

      • John R. Kirby
      Pages 229-274

    5. Styles of Thinking and Creativity

      • E. P. Torrance, Z. L. Rockenstein
      Pages 275-290

    6. Assessment and Training of Student Learning Strategies

      • Claire E. Weinstein
      Pages 291-316

    7. Strategies and Styles of Learning

      • Ronald Ray Schmeck
      Pages 317-347

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 349-368
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About this book

A style is any pattern we see in a person's way of accomplishing a particular type of task. The "task" of interest in the present context is education-learning and remembering in school and transferring what is learned to the world outside of school. Teachers are expressing some sort of awareness of style when they observe a particular action taken by a particular student and then say something like: "This doesn't surprise me! That's just the way he is. " Observation of a single action cannot reveal a style. One's impres­ sion of a person's style is abstracted from multiple experiences of the person under similar circumstances. In education, if we understand the styles of individual students, we can often anticipate their perceptions and subsequent behaviors, anticipate their misunderstandings, take ad­ vantage of their strengths, and avoid (or correct) their weaknesses. These are some of the goals of the present text. In the first chapter, I present an overview of the terminology and research methods used by various authors of the text. Although they differ a bit with regard to meanings ascribed to certain terms or with regard to conclusions drawn from certain types of data, there is none­ theless considerable agreement, especially when one realizes that they represent three different continents and five different nationalities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA

    Ronald Ray Schmeck

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Learning Strategies and Learning Styles

  • Editors: Ronald Ray Schmeck

  • Series Title: Perspectives on Individual Differences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2118-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42860-9Published: 30 June 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-2120-8Published: 05 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-2118-5Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 368

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology

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