Concrete Experience
Every year in August, my family organizes picnics for everyone to meet and reminisce about the good times. I saw this picnic as a way for us to interconnect once again and appreciate our lives together. What I loved most was how my sister and I were often allowed to make water balloons and throw them at my uncles when they were distracted. As we grew older, the water balloon fights disseminated and our conversations grew richer. I knew from a very early age that my sister trusted me more than anyone and the bond we shared made us both feel secure about one another. We had someone we could talk to and give advice. What I had experienced last summer however has not only changed the way I view my sister but has essentially …show more content…
According to David Kolb, a prominent educational theorist “learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience” (Kolb, 1984, p. 38). Kolb’s methodology of learning helps individuals not only reflect on experiences but learn from them in a way that can help to benefit them in a given situation. Further, the learning cycle references four major stages of learning, each with its own unique contribution to situational and theoretical learning. The first level of learning involves an experience that has the potential to affect the learner (Kolb, 1984). Additionally, the second level acknowledges a mere reflection of the experience that aids in making transparent, the inconsistencies that one faces while in the midst of the dilemma (Kolb, 1984). Further, the third stage includes an abstract reflection of the experience and what the individual can potentially learn or conceptualize from the situation (Kolb, 1984). Lastly, Kolb identifies the final stage as active experimentation whereby the learner takes what he or she has learned from the experiences and applies it to forthcoming problems (Kolb, 1984). Kolb has aided society in organizing how to manage an experience and learn the most from
Every year in August, my family organizes picnics for everyone to meet and reminisce about the good times. I saw this picnic as a way for us to interconnect once again and appreciate our lives together. What I loved most was how my sister and I were often allowed to make water balloons and throw them at my uncles when they were distracted. As we grew older, the water balloon fights disseminated and our conversations grew richer. I knew from a very early age that my sister trusted me more than anyone and the bond we shared made us both feel secure about one another. We had someone we could talk to and give advice. What I had experienced last summer however has not only changed the way I view my sister but has essentially …show more content…
According to David Kolb, a prominent educational theorist “learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience” (Kolb, 1984, p. 38). Kolb’s methodology of learning helps individuals not only reflect on experiences but learn from them in a way that can help to benefit them in a given situation. Further, the learning cycle references four major stages of learning, each with its own unique contribution to situational and theoretical learning. The first level of learning involves an experience that has the potential to affect the learner (Kolb, 1984). Additionally, the second level acknowledges a mere reflection of the experience that aids in making transparent, the inconsistencies that one faces while in the midst of the dilemma (Kolb, 1984). Further, the third stage includes an abstract reflection of the experience and what the individual can potentially learn or conceptualize from the situation (Kolb, 1984). Lastly, Kolb identifies the final stage as active experimentation whereby the learner takes what he or she has learned from the experiences and applies it to forthcoming problems (Kolb, 1984). Kolb has aided society in organizing how to manage an experience and learn the most from