Honey and Mumford's Learning Styles

Honey and Mumford (Peter and Alan) are best known for their learning style questionnaire (based heavily on the work of Kolb). This self-administered questionnaire determines your preferred learning style. According to Honey and Mumford, 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.

 

Activitists (Do)

Ø  Immerse themselves fully in new experiences

Ø  Enjoy here and now

Ø  Open minded, enthusiastic, flexible

Ø  Act first, consider consequences later

Ø  Seek to centre activity around themselves

 

Reflectors (Review)

Ø  Stand back and observe

Ø  Cautious, take a back seat

Ø  Collect and analyze data about experience and events, slow to reach conclusions

Ø  Use information from past, present and immediate observations to maintain a big picture perspective.

 

Theorists (Conclude)

Ø  Think through problems in a logical manner, value rationality and objectivity

Ø  Assimilate disparate facts into coherent theories

Ø  Disciplined, aiming to fit things into rational order

Ø  Keen on basic assumptions, principles, theories, models and systems thinking

 

Pragmatists (Plan)

Ø  Keen to put ideas, theories and techniques into practice

Ø  Search new ideas and experiment

Ø  Act quickly and confidently on ideas, gets straight to the point

Ø  Are impatient with endless discussion

 

How can we use this model?

Honey and Mumford's work builds on the earlier work done by David Kolb but perhaps offers simpler categories for different people's learning preferences. Once again, our role in communicating with others is to "flex" our approach to better appeal to these preferences as much as we can.

 

There are several resources on learning and learning styles on the www.ReadyToManage.com web site including the learning styles assessment or LSQ which builds on the work of Kplb and Honey & Mumford.

 

Dr Jon Warner. Ready To Manage Inc

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