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ORGL 3000. Fiddler & Marienau: Events Model of Learning from Experience Experience involves Feedback from Event to Attention to Experience to Reflection to New Learning

Here is another diagram from Fiddler and Marienau that shows how our previous learning is always already influencing and shaping how we see new experiences. We may have a new Event, like Kolb in the automobile museum. Kolb’s attention gets pulled in certain ways, he may already have some kind of focus based on what he knew of automobiles before he went to the museum. That shapes his Experience, he focused on some things more than others. Later on, he reflects on his experience and realizes, “Wow, I did not know there were so many other kinds of automobiles like those without engines!” That is what made going to the museum a meaningful learning experience, he realized not only something new, but he revised his own concept of automobile, his beliefs, because of the Event and the Experience. What gets your attention in a new experience?

Figure 7.1 from Fiddler, Morris, &Marienau, Catherine. (2008, summer). Developing habits of reflection for meaningful learning. In, S. Reed & C. Marienau (Eds.), Linking adults with community: Promoting civic engagement through community-based learning. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 118. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 75-85.

Photo of Catherine Marienau taken from: http://snl.depaul.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-a-z/Pages/catherine-marienau.aspx Photo of Morry Fiddler taken from: https://www.insightmedicalgenetics.com/our-team/