cognitive psychology. PhD 
gotta be careful with that particular idea i think, the pedagogical concerns and strategies of institutions don’t actually reveal that much about learning as an unstructured process, and most inspection of the “learning styles” meme is focused on schools and universities
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I wonder if there's any research on constructivism and affect. A hypothesis: guided learning, particularly in classrooms, is great for knowledge acquisition and bad for motivation, but vice versa for unsupervised exploration.
It's simultaneously possible for guidance to produce more learning per unit of student effort, while exploration produces long-term motivation that causes you to invest more overall effort than you would in a classroom.
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With the conclusion obviously not being “get rid of teachers”, but “make classrooms more exciting!”
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"while exploration produces long-term motivation" — MAYBE. Forced exploration can also have various negative consequences. Relatedly, I don't mind being the one to call out our collective worship of Lego.
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what i'm learning from this thread's slow burn is that cs profs apply the usual oop vs fp mode of discourse to pedagogical style and theories of learning, perhaps many other things as well
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