Re: Reply: Learning Strategies Then and Now: Same or Different?

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Ania Lian (ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au)
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:49:11 +1000 (EST) 

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:49:11 +1000 (EST)
From: Ania Lian <ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Reply: Learning Strategies Then and Now: Same or Different?

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On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Arun-Kumar Tripathi wrote:

> At this point, I'll bring the issue of Prof. Dave Merrill's paper, he
> writes at the beginning.."Learning styles are irrelevant"..
> I also
> totally disagree with this statement, then Why we are wasting so much our
> golden time to develop the new techniques of learning ..
> Prof. Merrill has written in his paper, "if you treat people with
> different personality attributes differently in the classroom or via
> technology, there will be significantly different outcomes in their
> learning". I would say, Great comments..Yes, because each people is unique
> in himself..

if they are different then how do you resolve the tension that groupping
people will create by susuming them to one type or another. Or to play on
Foucault, do you believe that there truly are men and women? And what
would this mean?

best,
Ania Lian
http://education.canberra.edu.au/~andrewl/mlal2

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