Experiential Learning Theory: Previous Research and New Directions
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Engineering Education Research Engineering Management Industrial Engineering |
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Reference - Article/Document |
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Charalampos Mainemelis David Kolb Richard E. Boyatzis |
| Description: | Paper published as: R. J. Sternberg and L. F. Zhang (Eds.), Perspectives on cognitive, learning, and thinking styles. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000. "Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) provides a holistic model of the learning process and a multilinear model of adult development, both of which are consistent with what we know about how people learn, grow, and develop. The theory is called "Experiential Learning" to emphasize the central role that experience plays in the learning process, an emphasis that distinguishes ELT from other learning theories. The term "experiential" is used therefore to differentiate ELT both from cognitive learning theories, which tend to emphasize cognition over affect, and behavioral learning theories that deny any role for subjective experience in the learning process. Another reason the theory is called "experiential" is its intellectual origins in the experiential works of Dewey, Lewin, and Piaget. Taken together, Dewey’s philosophical pragmatism, Lewin’s social psychology, and Piaget’s cognitive- developmental genetic epistemology form a unique perspective on learning and development. (Kolb, 1984)." |
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| Keywords: | David Kolb experiential learning Kolb's model of learning |
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Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development |
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| Publication Date: | January 2000 |
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WWW |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.d.umn.edu/~kgilbert/educ5165-731/Readings/experiential |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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