A Study On The Characteristics Of Learning Style Of The Secondary Vocational Students And Its Relationship To Parenting Style And Social Support

Learning style is basic behavior and make it more understandable when the students are studying and carrying the tasks, it is different from learning strategies and learning methods, make it more natural. Learning style reflects the students' cognitive level when the students work on learning tasks, and plays an important role in studying. At present, at home and abroad, there are abundant researches about children's learning style and its relationship with psychological health, parenting style, coping strategy and so on. Generally speaking, the main research objects are mostly concentrated in primary and middle or high schools' students, but ignoring related issues to the vocational students, especially paying few attention to vocational students' learning styles, study attitude and related factors. With the improvement of vocational education requirements, in order to achieve the goal to make a powerful manufacturing country, we must break the old patterns, and cultivate new technology talents in vocational school and vocational college, vocational educators have to focus on vocational students' learning ability and learning effect.Most of the vocational students are not good at traditional culture subjects, they don't like studying, and learning attitude is negative, attributed to their pre-existing learning style, also affected by many factors. Based on teaching practice experience, if the vocational students' learning style and professional technology are fitted for them, the students could still get strong performer, and then become social professional talents in the future. So, which do the vocational students have learning style characteristics? What's the relationship among the characteristics and parenting style, social support? Based on this, we think it is necessary to make a research on the characteristics of learning style of vocational students and its relationship related to parenting style and social support, in order to improve vocational students' learning enthusiasm and offer tips to the teachers when they organize teaching methods.This research was launched in a vocational school in Guizhou province, adopting vocational students' learning style questionnaire, PBI, SSS-CA, the measuring tools make a survey about vocational students' learning style, parenting style and social support and find out their features and relationships.The research result shows that the vocational students more likely tend to study cooperatively and study autonomously, but don't like the situational approach to study. There are significant differences between Male and female students in choosing cooperative learning style and situational learning style. The amount of female students who prefer cooperative study style is bigger than the male students, and the female students prefer to situational learning style. The vocational students' autonomously learning style show significant differences in each grade, students in grade three do better than grade one and two in autonomously learning; there is no significant differences between cooperative learning dimension and situational learning dimension, but the score which the senior two students get in situational learning cognition is significantly lower than senior one and senior three, senior two students scored significantly higher than senior one and senior three on the behavior characteristics. Through the analysis, we found that caring form of father is positively related with situational learning; Mothers' cultivating way is irrelevant to the three types of learning style. Vocational students' cooperative learning style is significantly positively related to subjective support, objective support and support utilization. Autonomic learning is positively related to objective support, and it is irrelevant to subjective support and support utilization; Situational learning is positively related to subjective support, objective support and support utilization.Conclusion: the cultivation of the vocational students' learning style is affected by the caring form parents, parenting style, subjective support, objective support, support utilization, social environment, school environment. According to the influence of different factors on vocational students' learning style, educators should take different strategies and methods, to change the old educational concept, to create a better learning environment for students, to promote all reforms of vocational education, to cultivate students' learning ability, to convey more talents with good quality and skilled for the country.