thought of as the way we process information. For example, active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, sequential/global, serial/simultaneous, etc. . Personality Patterns are the way we interact with our surroundings.
Each one of us has a preferred, consistent, and distinct way of perceiving, organising, and retaining information. This approach focuses on understanding how personality affects the way people interact with the environment, and how this affects the way individuals respond to each other within the learning environment. There are several dimensions along which learning styles differ. For example, Anderson differentiated between analytic and relational styles of learning.
These have been illustrated in Table . . It is clear that people with a relational style learn material best through exposure to a full unit or phenomenon. They comprehend parts of the unit only by understanding their relationship to the whole.
On the other hand, people with an analytical learning style learn mor e easily when information is presented step by step in a cumulative sequential pattern that builds towards a conceptual understanding. One must remember that the various learning styles are points along a scale that help us to discover the different forms of mental representation. They do not characterise people. Therefore, we should not divide the population into a set category (e.g., visual person, extrovert, etc.).
We are capable of learning under any style, no matter what our preference may be. L EARNING D ISABILITIES You must have heard, observed or read that thousands of children get enrolled for education in schools. Some of them, however, find the demands of educational process too difficult to meet, and they drop out. Such students are called “drop-outs”.
The reasons for this are numerous, such as sensory impairment, intellectual disability, social and emotional disturbance, poor economic conditions of the family, cultural beliefs and norms or other environmental influences. Apart from these conditions, there is another source of obstacle in the continuance of education that is called learning disabilities. It makes school learning, i.e. acquisition of knowledge and skills too difficult to grapple with.
Such children also fail to move forward in their learning activities. Learning disability is