Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development

Author(s)
Kolb, D. A.
Pages
272pp
Date published
01 Jan 1984
Publisher
Prentice-Hall International
Type
Books
Keywords
Organisational Learning and Change

Drawing from the intellectual origins of experiential learning in the works of John Dewey, Kurt Lewin, and Jean Piaget, this comprehensive and systematic book describes the process of experiential learning. The author proposes a model of the underlying structures of the learning process based on research in psychology, philosophy, and physiology, and bases its typology of individual learning styles and corresponding structures of knowledge in different academic disciplines and careers on this structural model. He also applies experiential learning to higher education and lifelong learning, particularly with regard to adult education.