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Do, Review, Conclude and Plan

Peter Honey and Alan Mumford are best known for their definitions of learning styles. Knowing your learning style can also help avoid repeating mistakes by undertaking activities that strengthen other styles, for example, if you tend to “jump in at the deep end”, consider spending time reflecting on experiences before taking action. Below are definitions of each Honey and Mumford learning style. Do you think you can tick all the boxes of one or are a combination of styles?

Activists: (Do)
Immerse themselves fully in new experiences
Enjoy here and now
Open minded, enthusiastic, flexible
Act first, consider consequences later
Seek to centre activity around themselves

Reflectors (Review)
Stand back and observe
Cautious, take a back seat
Collect and analyse data about experience and events, slow to reach conclusions
Use information from past, present and immediate observations to maintain a big picture perspective

Theorists (Conclude)
Think through problems in a logical manner, value rationality and objectivity
Assimilate disparate facts into coherent theories
Disciplined, aiming to fit things into rational order
Keen on basic assumptions, principles, theories, models and systems thinking

Pragmatists (Plan)
Keen to put ideas, theories and techniques into practice
Search new ideas and experiment
Act quickly and confidently on ideas, gets straight to the point
Are impatient and endless with discussion

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