Experiential learning is the process of acquiring knowledge and skill through direct experience and reflection on that experience, most formally built into David Kolb's four-stage Experiential Learning Model, developed from 1971 onward: a concrete experience, reflective observation on what worked or failed, abstract conceptualization into a general principle, and active experimentation testing that principle in a new situation, a cycle a learner can enter at any stage. Kolb's model draws directly on John Dewey, Kurt Lewin and Jean Piaget, and the underlying idea reaches back to Aristotle, who wrote around 350 BC that people learn the things they must do by actually doing them.
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Central QuestionDoes a learner build durable understanding by cycling through concrete experience, reflection, abstract conceptualization and active experimentation, rather than by receiving the concept first? 1 Most Effective ForSkills and understanding that benefit from a full concrete-experience-to-application cycle, such as internships, labs, service learning and simulations, where a learner can revisit the same cycle repeatedly. 1 Connections
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John Dewey, Thinkers Dewey's account of learning by experience is one of the direct foundations Kolb built his experiential learning model on, alongside Kurt Lewin and Jean Piaget.
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Distinct from Dewey's own philosophical account of learning by doing, held on this atlas as its own theory entity: Kolb's experiential learning model is the four-stage applied pedagogical cycle built from it, not a restatement of it.
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Service-Learning's own live entity-description: it grew from experiential-education roots through the 1970s and 1980s.
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learning through reflection on doing
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Every new attempt to ride is informed by a cyclical pattern of previous experience, thought and reflection.
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Reflection is a crucial part of the experiential learning process, and like experiential learning itself, it can be facilitated or independent.
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is an American educational theorist whose interests and publications focus on experiential learning
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Policies Informed: Challenge-Based Learning, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge-based_learning, second paragraph, foundation sentenceQuote, Policies Informed: Challenge-Based Learning, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge-based_learning, second paragraph, foundation sentence
Challenge-based learning builds on the foundation of experiential learning, leans heavily on the wisdom of a long history of progressive education, shares many of the goals of service learning, and the activism of critical pedagogy.
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Kolb integrated this learning cycle with a theory of learning styles, wherein each style prefers two of the four parts of the cycle.
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