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Ancient Greek Theories
Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC) has extensively written about learning. Although not all of his thoughts were completed. However he did successfully create 3 of the learning styles still used today. -
Multiple Intelligences brought into classrooms
The Multiple Intelligences were brought into classroom around the U.S. in more direct ways. People's personal space was taken into consideration when figuring out how they learn. Spiritual beliefs, religious intelligence, self-reflective personalities, and how students interact with others was widely researched -
Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1960) came up with the idea that people's dreams can be developed based on the environment they learn in. However not all dreams form this way -
Social Learning Theory
Prior to 1960, published theories of learning were heavily influenced by theories of classic conditioning, operant conditioning, and the psychoanalytic concept of drives. In 1959, Noam Chomsky published his criticism of B.F. Skinner's book Verbal Behavior. -
VARK Learning Styles
The popularity of this concept grew dramatically during the 1970s and 1980s, despite the evidence suggesting that personal learning preferences have no actual influence on learning results. -
Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner realeases his book "Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences" in 1983. Releasing his first learning theory that there are 9 types of intelligences and people's intelligence varies. -
Howard Gardner - Multiple Intelligences introduced
- Isolation by brain damage/neurological evidence
- The existence of prodigies, idiot savants, and exceptional individuals
- Distinguishable set of core operations
- Developmental stages with an expert end state
- Evolutionary history and plausibility
- Susceptibility to encoding in a symbol system
- Support from experimental psychological tasks
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Kolb
Having developed the model over many years prior, David Kolb published his learning styles model in 1984. He used 4 learning styles and developed 12 learning preferences. Such as peaople to instructor ratio, and also the types of intelligence. (Intrapersonal, musical, Kinesthetic, logical, verbal, spatial, naturalistic, and interpersonal) -
Multiple Intelligences still put in effect today
Visual–spatial
Verbal–linguistic
Logical–mathematical
Bodily–kinesthetic
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalistic
Existential
