Hispanic-American Learning Style

Learning styles of the Hispanic culture
Research on the Hispanic culture consists of an expanding body of affirmation that teaching and counseling students with interventions are congruent with the students' learning-style preferences result in their increased academic achievement and more positive attitudes toward learning. Research done on the learning styles of Hispanic-Americans have compared various ethnic groups of students in elementary school through college levels using a measure that identifies different elements of learning style grouped into subjective categories. These categories consist of environmental learning style, emotional learning style, psychological learning style, physiological learning style, and the sociological

The children are taught to have strong bonds and frequent interactions among a wide range of kin. Generally speaking, Hispanic American children and adolescents learn to show respect for authority, the patriarchal family structure, and extended family members. Hispanic children learn early the importance of a deep sense of family responsibility, rigid definitions of sex roles, respectful and reverent treatment of the elderly, and the male's position of respect and authority in the family. Although some of the male's authority appears to be relaxing as the woman's role is redefined, women in the Hispanic culture continue to occupy a subordinate position. Stereotyped sex roles tend to exist among many Latinos: the male is perceived as dominant and strong, whereas the female is perceived as nurturing and

More than four in ten of 16-24 year-old first generation Hispanics have not finished high school and are not enrolled in school, compared to 17 percent of second generation and 22 percent of third generation Hispanics. More than half of Hispanic immigrants do not have at least a high school diploma, twice the rate of native-born Hispanics (Fry, 2010). Hispanic adults who have recently arrived to the United States are not much better educated than Hispanic immigrants who have been in the United States for decades.
Although, with the exception of adults who arrived before 1970, a majority of Hispanic immigrant’s in 2008 were high school dropouts. The relatively poor educational background of Hispanic immigrants reflects the fact that most Hispanic immigrants are educated not in the U.S. but in less developed countries. Hispanic immigrants who arrived in the United States early in childhood were enrolled in United States elementary and secondary schools are much better educated. Of those who arrived under the age of 10, only about one-quarter were high school dropouts in 2008, and their education approximates that of native-born Hispanic adults (Fry, 2010). Most immigrant Hispanic adults arrived in the United States after age 14 have a majority rating of high school