Brief Biography:
David Kolb was born in 1939. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1961 from Knox College. He then went on to earn his Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. Today, he is a Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.
taken from: http://psychology.about.com/od/profilesal/p/david-kolb.htm by Kendra Cherry |
Kolb's BIG Ideas |
Okay, So Its Hard to be brief... here's more
A Matrix showing Kolb's Categories of Learning Styles
Kolb's model of learning was intended to build off the Jungian Archetypes among other influences (Kolb, 2005)
So What is Experiential Learning Anyway?
David Kolb and his wife Alice Kolb coauthored this article explaining LSI and experiential learning in depth.
This is the bare bones of Kolb's thoughts about how learning happens - I encourage you to delve deep into it.
1. Learning is best conceived as a process, not in terms of outcomes.
2. All learning is relearning.
3. Learning requires the resolution of conflicts between dialectically opposed modes of adaptation to the world.
4. Learning is a holistic process of adaptation to the world.
5. Learning results from synergetic transactions between the person and the environment.
6. Learning is the process of creating knowledge.
Taken from the Kolb Learning Style Inventory 3.1 (Kolb, 2005)
This is the bare bones of Kolb's thoughts about how learning happens - I encourage you to delve deep into it.
1. Learning is best conceived as a process, not in terms of outcomes.
2. All learning is relearning.
3. Learning requires the resolution of conflicts between dialectically opposed modes of adaptation to the world.
4. Learning is a holistic process of adaptation to the world.
5. Learning results from synergetic transactions between the person and the environment.
6. Learning is the process of creating knowledge.
Taken from the Kolb Learning Style Inventory 3.1 (Kolb, 2005)