- Learning process where knowledge results from the combination of grasping and transforming an experience
- Requires the acquisition of abstract concepts that can then be applied flexibly in a wide range of situations
- Learners must change or transform something in order to learn -? memorization or recollection doesn’t equal learning
- Four steps: Experiencing, reflecting, thinking and acting
- Starts with concrete experience that a learner is actively engaged in
- Then they reflect on the task or activity → ask questions and discuss the experience with others, real-time absorption of the new information
- Allows learners to identify any discrepancies between their understanding and the experience itself
- Next, abstract conceptualization → they begin to classify concepts and form conclusions on the events that occurred, gives learners the chance to asses how their new ideas can be applied in the real world
- Finally, active experimentation → apply their new ideas to the world around them, learn to associate what they have experienced with new ideas and innovations
- People have different learning styles → Diverging (prefer to watch or feel rather than do), Assimilating (think and watch style, reasoning), Converging (think and do), Accommodating (feel and do)
- Learning is rarely ever so neat and tidy in real life
