Does Culture Influence Learning Styles in Higher Education?

  • This paper develops a framework for understanding the relationships between approaches to learning adopted by students in the context of higher education and the culture of the country they were brought up in. The paper, after examining the more widely used Kolb's learning styles, opts for another categorisation, namely the so called learning approaches developed by Entwistle and others (for example, Entwistle and Ramsden, 1983; Biggs, 1987; Entwistle, 1992; Tait, Entwistle and McCune, 1998; Biggs, Kember and Leung, 2001). Each of the main categories of learning approaches identified by his school, namely, deep, surface apathetic, and strategic are related to Hofstede's cultural dimensions, namely, power distance, individualism vs. collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, long vs. short time orientation and masculinity vs. femininity and a series of hypotheses developed that could be tested in cross cultural samples. This study would give practical hints on students moving out to study in different cultures (e.g. for higher education) and for teachers dealing with students from multiple cultures. (PDF) Does culture influence learning styles in higher education?. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254836756_Does_culture_influence_learning_styles_in_higher_education [accessed Jul 09 2018].

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Verfasserangaben:Sankaran Manikutty, N.S. Anuradha, Katrin Hansen
URL:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254836756_Does_culture_influence_learning_styles_in_higher_education
ISSN:1740-2875
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch):International Journal of Learning and Change
Verlag:Inderscience Enterprises
Verlagsort:Genf
Dokumentart:Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Sprache:Englisch
Datum der Veröffentlichung (online):29.06.2018
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung:2007
Veröffentlichende Institution:Westfälische Hochschule Gelsenkirchen Bocholt Recklinghausen
Datum der Freischaltung:29.06.2018
Jahrgang:2
Ausgabe / Heft:1
Erste Seite:70
Letzte Seite:87
Fachbereiche / Institute:Fachbereiche / Wirtschaft und Informationstechnik Bocholt
Lizenz (Deutsch):License LogoEs gilt das Urheberrechtsgesetz

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