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What Kind Of Learner Am I?

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What kind of learner am I? This is a question that used to bother me in the past and it still does. The goal of this essay is to answer my question and finding out more about my role in a team, the way I behave and why, so I can both improve as a person and as a member of group. In the following paragraphs, I will explain the Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles theory (Gallagher, 2013) and the impact your learning style has in your group 's teamwork. I will discuss the type of members we can usually find in a group and in which category I include myself, but also about what learning styles I prefer and why.

The four major learning styles are learning methods that individuals naturally prefer, as illustrated by Honey, P. & Mumford, A. (1982) those styles are the Activist style, the Theorist style, the Pragmatist style and the Reflector Style where each of them has their own characteristics. The purpose of realising which style you prefer and understanding it is to maximise your learning capacity as P. Honey explained: “Learning to learn is your most important capability since it provides the gateway to everything else you want to develop”

Another important model that divides learning into separate styles is the Anthony Gregorc 's model which uses two perceptual qualities “Concrete” and “Abstract” and two ordering abilities “Random” and “Sequential”. The qualities and abilities combined all together result in Gregorc 's four styles: Concrete Sequential, Concrete Random,

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