Markova Learning Styles

A framework I have found helpful to understand and accept myself and understand and communicate more effectively with others is a classification system that identifies how each of us learns and processes the world around us, how we organize, make decisions, and think creatively. 

Dawna Markova, whose ideas I’m summarizing and whose books I’ve listed below, identified six unique patterns of thinking. Each of us has a natural preference for one of these six. The more we recognize our pattern, the more we can use it effectively; and the more we understand others thinking patterns, the more we can maximize relationships.

The theory of Learning Styles is based generally on the concept that there are three perceptual pathways to learning: visual (sight), kinesthetic (body, sensation, motion), and auditory (sound)—you’ve probably heard of these and three states of consciousness: conscious, subconscious and unconscious. Every person experiences each of these states of consciousness and each is linked to one of the three perceptual pathways through which we are obtaining the information.

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