Leisure education: An application of learning style theory to zoo visitors.
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Title
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Leisure education: An application of learning style theory to zoo visitors.
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Identifier
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AAI9605635
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identifier
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9605635
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Creator
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Milan, Lynn Marie.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Gary Winkel
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Date
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1995
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Recreation | Psychology, Personality | Education, Educational Psychology
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Abstract
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Casual adult zoo visitors completed a questionnaire which included their preferences for particular exhibit types and a learning style assessment instrument (either David A. Kolb's 1985 Learning Style Inventory or The Gregorc Style Delineator). Two subsamples were observed at different exhibits. The analyses focused on determining whether visitors' learning styles (as defined by the formal education measures) were related to their behavior at exhibits or their preferences for specific displays. Findings were more often than not in accordance with theory. Nonetheless, the indirect nature of the results suggests that neither learning style typology could provide definitive exhibit design guidelines. Aside from a possible gender bias, the typologies are both very individualistically oriented. In a socially interactive leisure environment, people do not function in a self-absorbed manner, as they may in a classroom. Moreover, without education as the primary objective, personality attributes other than learning style come into play. It is the context, therefore, that is proffered as the factor responsible for eliciting particular style characteristics. Hence, informal education settings seem to require their own typologies, based more on "social experiencing" than on learning style per se.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
