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ORGL 3000. Kolb: Table 6.1 A Complex Set of Ideas about How We Learn In case you were wondering how complex Kolb’s own conceptual scheme gets, here it is! Don’t worry, you don’t have to memorize the whole thing. But just think about how it might make sense to reflect on how we learn using this kind of a set of concepts. Take a look at the line that mentions “Concrete Experience” on the left side, about eight lines down. See how the movement is from the left to the right: we start out with direct sensing and feeling in the world, then we develop self-awareness about our own values, then we can differentiate others’ beliefs and feelings, and eventually we feel a commitment to our own values while at the same time appreciating differences of opinion in our broader social context. What our courses are doing is helping you to become more aware of this process in yourself. In the first phase you are in the Acquisition stage, moving to Specialization, then to Integration.

Table 6.1 from Kolb, David A. (1984). Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

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