What Is Learning and How Does it Occur?: Implications of Workplace Learning Scholarship for Experiential Educators

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Many who are dedicated to experiential pedagogies consider Kolb’s action-reflection cycle, which asks learners to participate in experiences and then reflect on them, to be foundational. But reflection-based conceptualizations of learning have been widely critiqued by workplace learning (WPL) scholars who contend that not all learning is mitigated through reflection and, rather, conceptualize learning as embodied and rooted in the social and material world.

This session introduces WPL theories and discusses their implications. Discussion topics include: Does what is learned change, depending on who is in the class? And, does learning happen differently in the technological age—even when we’re not online?

Author(s):

Amy Zidulka    
Royal Roads University
Canada