MN7181 - People and Organisations: Principles and Practice in Global Contexts - 3


Kolb’s Learning Styles and Experiential Learning Model

Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. Knowledge results from the combination of grasping experience and transforming it. - Kolb (1984, 41)

Kolbs’ Learning Cycle is a cycle which we experience since the day we are born till we leave this life.  It applies from minor things such as the time we started to learn to walk on our own to learning a new skill, unknowingly we have used this model.

Kolbs theory is divided to 4 interconnected stages, where each stage builds the base for the other stage.

The Experiential Learning Cycle



1.       Concrete Experience – How an individual learner feels and experiences by getting into a situation to learn something

2.    Reflective Observation – Helps to process what they have experienced, try to reflect on what happened

3.       Abstract Conceptualization – Helps in analyzing or connecting each result with the outcome

4.       Active Conceptualization – Allows them to apply the learned and conceptualized ideas into practice and decide on what to do next from what went wrong during the first attempt.

Individual learners are different to each other, each persons’ level of absorbing, and level of implementation differs to each other. This too is identified in this model and explained. That is where Kolb has defined the 2 axis’s “perception continuum” and “processing continuum”.

Perception Continuum (Concrete Experience & Abstract Conceptualization) is how an individual grasps or absorbs the information experience or learned and Processing Continuum (Reflective Observation & Active Conceptualization) is how the learnt are put into practice.

Corresponding to these stages the 4 learning styles came into play;

1.   Accommodators –doers, who learn better through hands on experience

2.   Divergers – People oriented, who learn better when allowed to observe

3.   Convergers – Problem solvers, who learn better when practical applications and theories are provided with

4.   Assimilators – Idea seekers yet doesn’t put into practice, who learn better when backed by theories


Reference:
http://cei.ust.hk/files/public/simplypsychology_kolb_learning_styles.pdf
https://www.learning-theories.com/experiential-learning-kolb.html










Comments

  1. UnknownAugust 24, 2018 at 6:21 AM

    Suggest a bit more literature explaining yr insights. In-text citations are important.
    Suggested to improve in yr future blogs.


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  2. Randika EkanayakaAugust 25, 2018 at 6:51 AM

    Good content.. Better to have more references..

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  3. Tharanga AmarakoonAugust 25, 2018 at 7:47 AM

    Interesting essay...

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  4. faizalAugust 27, 2018 at 8:04 AM

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