Adult Learning Styles
Discussion on Kolb's Theory of Learning Styles and Silver
and Hanson's Learning Style Inventory
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Adult Learning Styles
MacKeracher (2004,
p.74) asserts that learning refers to the content of thought or to what we
learned, learning styles explicitly refer to how we have learned it".
Learning styles are achieved by combining a number of learning strategies to
come up with particular learning styles.
Many adult learners can implement
several strategies of learning but often prefer to rely on the strategy they
know best. It is widely agreed by educators all over the world that students
who actively engage in the learning process are likely to achieve greater
success. This assertion is backed by numerous education literature which
reveals that once students are engaged in a particular learning process that
suits them, they feel empowered and their propensity for higher personal
achievements significantly rises.
The significance of learning styles springs
from the fact that "each adult has personally preferred strategies for
processing information and for learning" (MacKeracher, 2004, p.79). It is
these strategies that determine the manner in which the adult learner goes
about the learning task.
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