أساليب التعلم و التفكير عند طلبة أقسام الجغرافية في كليات التربية

الملخص EN

The present study aims at identifying the learning and thinking styles employed by students at the departments of Geography/ Colleges of Education in Baghdad province.

The study is limited to the gender variable.

The sample of the study consists of (011) male and female students selected randomly from the colleges of education at the universities of Baghdad and Al-Mustansryah representing (5.322) from the whole population which totals (754) male and female students distributed into (.5) male students, and (86) females ones.

The instrument of the study is a modified version of Kolb and Mcarthy's learning styles checklist (5112), and Sternberg and Wagner's thinking styles checklist (0990) .

Results show a variation in students learning styles which are arranged successively as follows: convergent style, comprehensive style, adaptive style, and finally divergent style.

In addition learning styles are found to be variant in terms of the gender variable.

Regarding thinking styles, it is found out that they are also variant in terms of the gender variable.

In the high of the results, the researcher recommends to take care to identifying college students learning and thinking styles for their beneficial effect in selecting the appropriate specialization of study, and the teaching styles that match student's styles as well.