LEARNING STYLES FROM THE ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP: EVALUATION AND PROPOSAL

Abstract

Learning ways in students clearly differ in the way they receive and process information: visually, verbally, through facts data or theories and abstract models. Some learn actively, and others introspectively. We expect a student to move along all these ways, but; is the didactic we are currently using adequate? If it is adapted exclusively to the students, they will not develop balanced in all the scopes demanded by the professional competence. But if we do not synchronize with their learning ways, the student will be unmotivated and may even drop the career (architecture possess high desertion level). The objective of this research is to insert the teaching of Architecture Workshops in the new learning theories. To do this, the learning styles of a group of students were analyzed and later, methodologies implicit in design teaching were evaluated from the perspective of the Learning Styles Theory. Finally, a didactics based on the inclusion of theoretical subjects into the workshop was proposed.