Contents -- Preface -- Part I Introduction to Learning Styles in Higher Education -- Chapter 1 Capitalizing on College Students' Learning Styles: Theory, Practice, and Research Rita Dunn -- Chapter 2 Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education: The How- to Steps Rita Dunn and Shirley A. Griggs -- Part II Applications in Education -- Chapter 3 Learning Styles in Graduate Education Classes: The River of No Return Sue Ellen Read -- Chapter 4 Educating Secondary Teachers to Work with StudentsÌ Diverse Styles Nancy Montgomery -- Chapter 5 One Texas UniversityÌs Approach to Integrating Learning Styles in Teacher Education: Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk Janet Whitley and Pam Littleton -- Chapter 6 Hannibal '' Lecture'' Changes His Oral Menu Kenneth J. Dunn -- Chapter 7 Distance Education: Reaching Beyond The Walls Jody Taylor -- Chapter 8 Learning Styles in a Suburban College Bernadyn Kim Suh -- Chapter 9 A Paradigm Shift: Learning-Styles Implementation and Preservice Teachers Karen Burke -- Chapter 10 Learning Styles and College Teaching: My Experiences with Education Majors Ann C. Braio -- Chapter 11 Tactual Learning at the Doctoral Level: A Risk Worth Taking Barbara K. Given and Edward P. Tyler -- Chapter 12 Divergent Styles, Common Goals: Implications for Counselors Shirley A. Griggs -- Chapter 13 Teacher Training in Progress: Giving It Our Best Shot Katy Lux -- Chapter 14 Project Learn: A University-Initiated Consortium of Science Educators and Practitioners Barbara S. Thomson -- Chapter 15 Teaching Graduate Students with a Learning- Styles Approach: Adding Zest to the Course Ingredients Laura Shea Doolan -- Part III Applications in Health-Related Professions -- Chapter 16 Incorporating Learning Styles into the Curricula of Two Programs in a College of Health- Related Professions Joyce A. Miller and Rose F. Lefkowitz.

Part IV Applications in Schools of Law, Engineering, and Liberal Arts -- Chapter 17 Bringing Learning- Style Instructional Strategies to Law Schools: You Be the Judge! Robin A. Boyle -- Chapter 18 Meeting the Academic Challenges of an Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum Joanne Ingham -- Chapter 19 The Writing Portfolio as a Learning-Styles Tool in a College English- as- a- Second-Language Course Herbert D. Pierson -- Part V Applications in Colleges of Business -- Chapter 20 Contract Activity Packages in Higher Education: The Flexible Flyer of Pedagogy Heather Pfleger Dunham and Barbara- Jayne Lewthwaite -- Chapter 21 How I Found Pedagogical Nirvana: Beware of the Law of Unintended Consequences! E. L. Deckinger -- Chapter 22 Global Teaching in an Analytic Environment: Is There Madness in the Method? Ralph A. Terregrossa and Valerie Englander -- Epilogue -- Appendix A Award- Winning Learning-Styles Research -- Appendix B Hemispheric Preference Scale (Zenhausern, 1988) -- Appendix C Hemispheric Preference Scale: Scoring Instructions -- Appendix D Example of an Analytic- Format Syllabus -- Appendix E Example of a Global- Format Syllabus -- Appendix F Law School Quiz -- Appendix G Law School Quiz Answers -- Appendix H Alternative Instructional Methods Responsive to Diverse Learning- Style Characteristics -- Appendix I Research Concerned with College Students' Learning Styles -- References -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.