Learning Styles, Teaching Styles And Personality Styles Of Preservice Teachers Of Agricultural Education

Abstract

Each teacher is unique in many ways. Teachers vary from one another in such characteristics as learning style, teaching style and personality style. Research has been conducted in several teacher education disciplines with regard to the selected teacher characteristics of learning style (Witkin, 1973; Gregorc, 1979; Jensen, 1969; Jacobs, 1990; MacNeil, 1980; Avery, 1985; Jeskey, 1985; Zippert, 1985; Framer, 1986; Young, 1986), teaching style (Dunn and Dunn, 1979; Witkin, 1973; Gregorc, 1979; Avery, 1985; Koppleman, 1980). and personality style (Lawrence, 1984; Sugarman. 1985; Meyers and Myers, 1980; Hoffman and Betkouski, 1981; Carlyn, 1976; Duch, 1982; DeNovellis and Lawrence, 1983). Despite the amount of related research regarding learning styles, teaching styles, and personality styles, agricultural education professionals may be unable to fully utilize the results because agricultural education teachers were not included in the sample of the previous research. Thus, within agricultural education, a problem exists in that there is a lack of data which identifies the learning style, teaching style, and personality style that teachers in the profession possess.