INTERESTING LOOK AT KOLB'S BOOK "EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING"

 October 27, 2020 at 11:29 PM

 Hi!
I have opened some interesting chapters of KOLB very interesting book Experiential learning and found on the first page fascinating poem about the pleasure of learning in Song of Joy, by Wang Ken. Learning is the process of entering into the experience alone or together, we share what we learn to ourselves or to the other. We reflect this meaning and think about the consequences for us and the group and what this learning brought to us. From this understanding, which can be sometimes very long, exhausted but satisfied process, we can ACT to create experience of this kind of pleasure. No pleasure, no learning/ no learning, no pleasure.
Kolb developed experiential learning theory in which the learner is directly in touch with the surrounded realities. This one who only talks about, write about, reads about can not share an experience. Experiential learning theory is naturalistic ongoing process of direct learning from the experience. I ti is very important how experience is transformed into learning and trustworthy knowledge. It must be the direct experience of emotions, critical reflections, consequences of action,..."Being provoked by commitment to explore it more deeply into critical reflection, a reflection that led to an idea (the learning cycle) which we tried out the action, the consequences of which provided new stuckness (that is how Dewey see the reflective process and how he seemed to bi initiated)) and other trips around learning cycle" (see KOLB Introduction). William James talking about concrete PURE EXPERIENCE as a dual knowledge of concrete experience which is happening NOW and something we can ACT in the present. Jean Piaget describes how intelligence is shaped by experience and is a product of the interconnection between learner and an environment. He also talk about ACTION as the key of his experiential learning. 



KOLB, D.A.(2015) EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: Experience as the source of learning and development. 2nd Ed. New Jersey: Pearsons Education

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