Introduction

Some Questions...
• How can we teach students if we do
not know how they learn?

• How can we improve the performance of our

students if we do not know how we ourselves
learn or how to enhance their learning?

• Are the learning difficulties of so many students

better understood as the teaching problems of?
Some ideas...
• There is a strong intuitive appeal in the idea that
teachers and course designers should pay closer
attention to students’ learning styles – by
diagnosing them, by encouraging students to
reflect on them and by designing teaching and
learning interventions around them.
• Another impetus to interest in post-16 learning
styles is given by a government policy that aims
to develop the necessary attitudes and skills for
lifelong learning,
particularly in relation
to ‘learning to learn’.

• The logic of lifelong

learning suggests that
students will become more motivated to learn
by knowing more about their own strengths and
weaknesses as learners.
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