Bulmer 1983

Bulmer, Rosalie. 1983. "Cultural learning styles: Planning a program around local learning styles." Notes on Literacy. Interest level: specialist.

Discusses how cognition relates to

• culture
• socialization processes
• environment, and
• innate ability.

For comparing cultures, article focuses on the basic values model developed by Marvin Mayers. Looks at six different continua in the light of Kalinga culture:

• Time-event
• Dichotomy-holism
• Crisis-noncrisis
• Object as goal-person or interaction as goal
• Prestige ascribed-prestige achieved
• Vulnerability as weakness-vulnerability as strength

Talks about the implications the different learning styles have for literacy.

• Bibliography module: Bulmer 1983
• In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): B
• In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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