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Imaginative Learners

The following summary of Imaginative Learning is adapted from Bernice McCarthy's Using the 4MAT System to Bring Learning Styles to Schools.

Characteristics of Imaginative Learners:

  • Perceive information concretely and process it reflectively.
  • Integrate experience with the self.
  • They are imaginative thinkers who believe in their own experiences.
  • They work for harmony and need to be personally involved.
  • They seek commitment and are interestedin people and culture.
  • They have difficulty making decisions.
  • Seek meaning and clarity.
School:
  • They find school too fragmented and disconnected from personal issues.
  • They struggle to connect the content of schooling with their need to grow and understand the world.
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