The tenacity of learning styles: a response to Lodge, Hansen and Cottrell

It’s nearly the end of the scary movie. The evil protagonist has been dealt a series of catastrophic blows and has fallen back, apparently lifeless. The heroes are beginning to celebrate, to relax, perhaps moving on to other things. We (the viewers) know better. It’s not dead, no matter how mangled. It’s coming back, if not immediately for one last shock then certainly in the sequel. I’m sure many academics have days when they feel their life resembles a horror movie, it’s just that in relation to Learning Styles I am one of those weary, gore-spattered actors. No matter what we’ve hit it with, the thing won’t die.