Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction to Learning Styles in Higher Education Capitalizing on College Students' Learning Styles: Theory, Practice, and Research by Rita Dunn and Shirley A. Griggs Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education: The How-To Steps by Rita Dunn Applications in Education Learning Styles in Graduate Education Classes: The River of No Return by Sue Ellen Read Educating Secondary Teachers to Work with Students' Diverse Styles by Nancy Montgomery One Texas University's Approach to Integrating Learning Styles in Teacher Education: Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk by Janet Whitley and Pam Littleton Hannibal "Lecture" Changes His Oral Menu by Kenneth Dunn Distance Education: Reaching Beyond the Walls by Jody Taylor Learning Styles in a Suburban College by Bernadyn Kim Suh A Paradigm Shift: Learning-Styles Implementation and Preservice Teachers by Karen Burke Learning Styles and College Teaching: My Experiences with Education Majors by Ann C. Braio Tactual Learning at the Doctoral Level: A Risk Worth Taking by Barbara Given and Edward P. Tyler Divergent Styles, Common Goals: Implications for Counselors by Shirley A. Griggs Teacher Training in Progress: Giving It Our Best Shot by Katy Lux Project Learn: A University-Initiated Consortium of Science Educators and Practitioners by Barbara S. Thomson Teaching Graduate Students with a Learning- Styles Approach: Adding Zest to the Course Ingredients by Laura Shea Doolan Applications in Health-Related Professions Incorporating Learning Styles into the Curricula of Two Programs in a College of Health-Related Professions by Joyce A. Miller and Rose F. Lefkowitz Applications in Schools of Law, Engineering, and Liberal Arts Bringing Learning Style Instructional Strategies to Law Schools: You Be the Judge! by Robing A. Boyle Meeting the Academic Challenges of an Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum by Joanne Ingham The Writing Portfolio as a Learning-Styles Tool in a College English-as-a-Second-Language Course by Herbert D. Pierson Applications in Colleges of Business Contract Activity Packages in Higher Education: The Flexible Flier of Pedagogy by Heather Pfleger Dunham and Barbara-Jayne Lewthwaite How I Found Pedagogical Nirvana: Beware of the Law of Unintended Consequences! by E. L. Deckinger Global Teaching in an Analytic Environment: Is There Madness in the Method? by Ralph A. Terregrossa and Valerie Englander Epilogue Bibliography Appendices Author Index Subject Index

About the Author :
RITA DUNN is Professor of Instructional Leadership and Director of the Center for the Study of Learning and Teaching Styles at St. John's University. She is the author of 22 titles including Improved Test Scores, Attitudes, and Behaviors in America's Schools (with DeBello, Bergin & Garvey, 1999). SHIRLEY A. GRIGGS is Professor of Counselor Education at St. John's University and is co-author of Multiculturalism and Learning Style (with Rita Dunn) (Praeger, 1998).