The process of experiential learning - Kolb 1993 - The Diigo Meta page

• 02 Feb 09
  

  Youenn Leborgne

  Notions:
  e-learning design, experiential, personal relevance, approach, androgogy, cognitive development, experience, accomodation, assimilation, feedback
  
  A holistic integrative perspective on learning that combines experience, perception, cognition and behaviour
  
  Lewin, Dewey and Piaget: 3 models of experiential learning (see figures)
  
  Accomodation and assimilation
  
  ** List of 4 major stages of cognitive growth: 0 to 15 years old **
  
  Characteristics of experiential learning:
  
  1. Learning is best conceived as process
  - from an experiential perspective, defining learning in terms of outcomes can lead to a definition of non-learning
  - the purpose of education is to stimulate enquiry and skill in the process of knowledge getting
  2. Learning is a continuous process grounded in experience
  - all learning is re-learning
  - cognitive dissonance essential for learning to occur
  - job of educator is to implant new ideas, dispose of and modify old ones (important to make learner's thinking apparent): integration leads to more stable and useful knowledge and understandings than substitution
  3. The process of learning requires the resolution of conflicts between dialectically opposed modes of adaptation to the world (concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualisation and active experience)
  4. Learning is a holistic process of adaptation to the world
  - integrated functioning of the total organism
  - the major process of human adaptation
  5. Learning involves transaction between the person and the environment
  fluid, interpenetrative relationship between objective conditions and subjective experience
  6. Learning is the process of creating knowledge
  - knowledge results from transaction between social knowledge and personal knowledge
  - intimate relationship between learning and knowledge
  - all social knowledge requires an attitude of partial scepticism in its interpretation
  
  ** Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience **
  

  e-learning design context feedback

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