American educational theorist who has taught organizational behavior at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management. Kolb developed the Experiential Learning Model in the early 1970s with colleague Ron Fry, describing learning as a cycle of concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization and active experimentation, and built the widely used Learning Style Inventory from the same framework. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionDeveloped the Experiential Learning Model (the Kolb learning cycle) and the Learning Style Inventory, giving experiential learning its most widely taught theoretical framework. 1 Notable WorkExperiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development (1984) 1 Connections
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Jean Piaget, Thinkers Kolb names Dewey, Lewin and Piaget as the roots of experiential learning theory.
John Dewey, Thinkers Kolb names Dewey, Lewin and Piaget as the roots of experiential learning theory.
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David Kolb published his theory of experiential learning in 1984, per its own entity-description on this atlas.
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is an American educational theorist whose interests and publications focus on experiential learning
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