Honey and mumford

According to Honey and Mumford VAKS learning style, my preferred learning style is a kinaesthetic learner. This means that I am a practical person. Being a practical persons means that I like to participate in activities and like to move around.

When doing my work experience in a care home, I had to participate in activities with the elderly residents. Before doing the activities with them, I first asked a member of staff to show me how to carry out the activity hen I demonstrated it to the elderly residents before letting them engage in the activity.

While studying Maslow's hierarchy of needs, he states that the three bottom layers need to be met before you can move on to meeting the top two layers. Studies show that if your physiological, safety and social needs are not met then you wouldn't have a high self-esteem within yourself, which means you can not achieve self-fulfilment.

During my work experience at asda bakery, my psychological needs were met. I was provided breaks with free food and drink to satisfy my needs. I was warm whike working there, due to there being heaters and also due to to the cooking equipment. However, I didn't feel particularly safe there due to the floor always being dirty and slippery. There was, on a few occasions where I did slipped. I feel as if my social needs have been met while on my work placement as I have made good friends with everyone and get along with everyone that I worked with. Due to these needs being met, I feel as if I have a lot of confidence within myself and that I can achieve everything that I put my mind to and 

The unit that has helped influence my learning is unit 4, which is development through the life stages. The reason it is my favourte is because I would like to study midwifery, so unit 4 has showed me the before and after stages of birth. It has showed me how different people will develop at their individual stage. 

My aspiration is to be a midwife. Being a midwife requires me to have patience when dealing with mothers that are having a difficult time. Also dealing with people in difficult situations such as rape. I will have to be approachable to talk to all the family members. This has motivated me to learn because I would have to approach every situation as a new situation, also this will motivate me to be more happy about what life brings and see a better outlook on life.

Family has motivated me to do better in life. Having a family that have all gone on to study at university, it has pushed me to do as well as them. This has motivated me to stay on a college and move onto university. However, if for example, a child saw that their family didn't really have much of an education, it could also push them to do better and make something of themselves. By having this motivation, when doing my work experience, it caused me to do more in the field of work and push myself even more to do what I was suppose to. 

Funding for study has also influenced me in my learning as I would like to go into my nursing course which is funded by the government. By doing a course that has been funded for me motivates me even more because I wont have to worry about getting the money to pay for the course. Money could be a problem for somebody in difficult situation, so knowing that you wouldn't have to pay could make their lives easier in the sense that they won't be worrying about trying to find a way to pay. This could also be very rewarding for the individual as well.