LEARNING STYLES. A MODEL OF TEACHER OBSERVATION SCALE FOR LEARNING STYLE

Abstract

This work is the result of a research on learning styles and search for an instrument for detection by teachers of basic education. Learning styles have been studied with great depth in the last filly years based on psychological currents (HERRMANN, 1982) or pedagogical (GARDNER, 1995) and learning theories. There are also several instruments (LSI, HBDI, LSI ++, CHAEA) that measure the styles and that obey these same referents. With this study we created the -REA- with a theoretical foundation integrating different theories (KOHLBER, 1969, BANDLER and GRINDER, 1979, KOLB, 1984, DUNN, DUNN and PRICE, 1985, FELDER and SILVERMAN, 1988), adapted to ordinary school contexts, that can be completed by teachers as an instrument of reflection on their students and, at the same time, as an illustrator of new ways of understanding how students learn and intervention in classrooms.