Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• Part I - Introduction to Learning Styles in Higher Education 1
• Chapter 1 - Capitalizing on College Students’ Learning Styles: Theory, Practice, and Research 3
• Chapter 2 - Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education: The How-To Steps 19
• Part II - Applications in Education 33
• Chapter 3 - Learning Styles in Graduate Education Classes: The River of No Return 35
• Chapter 4 - Educating Secondary Teachers to Work with Students’ Diverse Styles 42
• Chapter 5 - One Texas University’s Approach to Integrating Learning Styles in Teacher Education: Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk 54
• Chapter 6 - Hannibal ‘‘Lecture’’ Changes His Oral Menu 68
• Chapter 7 - Distance Education: Reaching beyond the Walls 75
• Chapter 8 - Learning Styles in a Suburban College 80
• Chapter 9 - A Paradigm Shift: Learning-Styles Implementation and Preservice Teachers 85
• Chapter 10 - Learning Styles and College Teaching: My Experiences with Education Majors 95
• Chapter 11 - Tactual Learning at the Doctoral Level: a Risk Worth Taking 100
• Chapter 12 - Divergent Styles, Common Goals: Implications for Counselors 109
• Chapter 13 - Teacher Training in Progress: Giving It Our Best Shot 117
• Chapter 14 - Project Learn: a University-Initiated Consortium of Science Educators and Practitioners 124
• Chapter 15 - Teaching Graduate Students with a Learning-Styles Approach: Adding Zest to the Course Ingredients 135
• Part III - Applications in Health-Related Professions 143
• Chapter 16 - Incorporating Learning Styles into the Curricula of Two Programs in a College of Health-Related Professions 145
• Part IV - Applications in Schools of Law, Engineering, and Liberal Arts 153
• Chapter 17 - Bringing Learning-Style Instructional Strategies to Law Schools: You Be the Judge! 155
• Chapter 18 - Meeting the Academic Challenges of an Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum 166
• Chapter 19 - The Writing Portfolio as a Learning-Styles Tool in a College English-As-A-Second-Language Course 174
• Part V - Applications in Colleges of Business 181
• Chapter 20 - Contract Activity Packages in Higher Education: The Flexible Flyer of Pedagogy 183
• Chapter 21 - How I Found Pedagogical Nirvana: Beware of the Law of Unintended Consequences! 193
• Chapter 22 - Global Teaching in an Analytic Environment: Is There Madness in the Method? 201
• Epilogue 211
• Appendix A 213
• Appendix B 216
• Appendix C 218
• Appendix D 220
• Read 227
• Read 228
• Appendix E 231
• Appendix F 235
• Appendix G 237
• Appendix H 239
• Appendix I 240
• References 247
• Index 261
• About the Editors and Contributors 265