Los estilos de aprendizaje, ¿una clasificación individual o social?

Learning styles offer a way in which to classify how students interact, organize and acquire knowledge depending on their cognitive and affective preferences. However, it is questioned whether this classification is individual or social, since it has a close relation with the division between intellectual and manual practices that started in the Middle Ages. In the school environment, there is an apparent contradiction between affirming that each student has a different learning style, and that the school does not promote equally all ways of accessing and organizing knowledge. Therefore, in this article we will analyze why does the school system continue to promote only some learning styles and not all, why is practice still separated from theory, why is there still inequality when it comes to the access of knowledge, and why does our learning experience seem to be individual and not collective. The answers to these questions will allow us to consider learning from another perspective, as a diverse and -above all - collective experience.