Learning Models

Overview

• Twelve Learning Theories - http://www.funderstanding.com/about_learning.cfm

• Article "What Are Learning Styles?" - http://www.brevard.edu/fyc/listserv/remarks/suskie2.htm

• Article "Fifteen Misconceptions about Multicultural Education" - http://www.udel.edu/bateman/acei/misconceptions.htm

James Banks Model of Multicultural Education

• Overview of Banks' Model - http://www.teachernet.com/literacylights/multicultrual2.htm

• Overview of Multicultural Education - http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/edchange_history.html

• Banks' article "Diversity Within Unity:  Essential Principles for Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Society" - http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/multicultural/banks.htm

• University of Washington Center for Multicultural Education - http://depts.washington.edu/centerme/home.htm

• Resources on ME - http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/presrvce/pe3lk1.htm

Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy

• Overview and Resources - http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/guides/bloom1.html

• Applications - http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm

• PowerPoint presentation on 1990's revision of the taxonomy - http://www.kurwongbss.qld.edu.au/thinking/Bloom/bloomspres.ppt

Jerome Bruner's Learning Theories

• Overview - http://www.infed.org/thinkers/bruner.htm

• Bruner and Discovery Learning - http://scied.gsu.edu/Hassard/mos/2.7.html

• Book review:  The Culture of Education - http://www.scottlondon.com/reviews/bruner.html

L. Dee Fink's Taxonomy of Significant Learning

• Introduction - http://www.ou.edu/idp/significant/siglearning.htm
   

• Graphic - http://www.iuk.edu/~koctla/assessment/pdfs/fink-taxonomy.pdf
   

• Fink article "What is 'Significant Learning'?" -
  http://www.ou.edu/idp/significant/WHAT IS.pdf#search="Fink Taxonomy"
   

• The Active Learning Handbook, which includes application's of Fink's taxonomy - http://www.webster.edu/fdc/alhb/alhb2006.pdf

Howard Gardner’s Theory of Learning Styles (aka "Multiple Intelligences")

• Overview - http://www.tecweb.org/styles/gardner.html

• Learning Styles resources (Gardner and others) - http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/jshindl/ls/

• Determining your child's learning style - http://www.oakmeadow.com/resources/articles/Styles.htm

Christine Sleeter and Carl Grant Model of Multicultural Education

• Book Review: Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class and Gender - http://edrev.asu.edu/reviews/rev237.htm

• Overview and research study - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3935/is_200101/ai_n8948129