TY - JOUR
T1 - Unfulfilled promises
T2 - how inventories, instruments and institutions subvert discourses of diversity and promote commonality
AU - Ritter, Leonora
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: month (773h) = October-December; Journal title (773t) = Teaching in Higher Education. ISSNs: 1356-2517;
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This paper looks at the paradox of how recognition of diversity through research into individual differences, in such areas as learning style, cognitive style and personality, has had the reductionist effect of promoting commonality. This has been the outcome of the competition between inventories; the reduction of diversity to characteristics which can be defined, categorised and measured; and the application of these theories of diversity to facilitate and justify the tendency to promote commonality in learning and teaching behaviour in universities.
AB - This paper looks at the paradox of how recognition of diversity through research into individual differences, in such areas as learning style, cognitive style and personality, has had the reductionist effect of promoting commonality. This has been the outcome of the competition between inventories; the reduction of diversity to characteristics which can be defined, categorised and measured; and the application of these theories of diversity to facilitate and justify the tendency to promote commonality in learning and teaching behaviour in universities.
KW - Open access version available
KW - Diversity
KW - Individual difference
KW - Measurement
U2 - 10.1080/13562510701595119
DO - 10.1080/13562510701595119
M3 - Article
VL - 12
SP - 569
EP - 579
JO - Teaching in Higher Education
JF - Teaching in Higher Education
SN - 1356-2517
IS - 5-6
ER -