Multiculturalism and learning style teaching and counseling adolescents
Title:
Multiculturalism and learning style teaching and counseling adolescents
Author:
Dunn, Rita Stafford, 1929-
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9780313019371
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1995.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 280 p.) : ill.
Contents:
Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Examining Your Knowledge of Multiculturalism and Learning Styles; 2. Understanding Learning Styles and the Need for Teaching to Individual, Rather than Group, Characteristics; 3. Understanding Learning-Styles Counseling and the Adolescent Stages of Development; 4. Multiculturalism and the Learning-Style Characteristics of Major Cultural Groups in the United States; 5. Identifying Adolescents' Individual Learning-Style Strengths; 6. Managing the Implementation of a Learning-Styles Program.
Abstract:
This text synthesizes the research on the learning style characteristics of five culturally diverse groups: Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and European Americans. Although each of these groups has distinguishing features and differs from other groups on some of the 22 elements that constitute learning style, there are broad within-group variations that preclude generalizations. Dunn and Griggs identify a multidimensional model of learning style, describe a comprehensive assessment instrument for identifying an individual's learning style, and provide.
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