Learning styles and teaching approaches, Agroforestry Engineering major

Abstract

The study addressed the learning styles in students and teaching approaches in the Agroforestry Engineering major, University of the Autonomous Regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast -RAAN-, Las Minas University Campus, 2008. The methodology that supported this research has qualitative approach with an ethno methodological method, individual interviews and observation, the data that was provided by the study subjects was collected, processed and analyzed. The results revealed that the styles in the teaching processes correspond to divergent styles and they are developed around two approaches namely: the transmissive and the constructivist. The first predominates in the majority of teachers and the last in a minority. The relationship between teaching approaches and learning styles occurs at a non-significant level with respect to the characteristics of the identified styles. Noting that none of the teachers interviewed knows the learning style of their students.