Can an Individuals Approach to Learning Be Modified?
Because learning is an ongoing process, occurring over the span of one’s lifetime and delivered by a variety of instructors with a variety of teaching styles in a variety of situations, learners need to be able to adjust their cognitive styles. They need to become better all-around learners by “investing extra effort in underdeveloped or underutilized styles” (Delahoussaye 2002, p. 31). Pithers (2002) reports on studies by Rush and Moore that explore the feasibility of promoting learner adaptability through training. These researchers discovered that students whose cognitive styles were more field dependent were able to change the strength of their style through training, which suggests that cognitive style may be a flexible construct and malleable over the long term. These views were also noted by Hayes and Allinson (1997), who contend that “exposing learners to learning activities that are mismatched with their preferred learning style will help them develop the learning competencies
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