Learning styles based on experiences

Learning styles based on experiences

1. Model description

   • Kolb identified two main dimensions of learning:
     • perception and processing.
       • He said that learning is the result of the way people perceive and then process what they have perceived.

2. He described two opposite types of perception.

   • People who perceive through concrete experience
     • And people who perceive through abstract conceptualization (and generalizations).

3. As I explored the differences in processing.

   • Kolb also found examples of both extremes:
     • Some people process through active experimentation (putting the implications of concepts into practice in new situations)
       • While others through reflective observation.

4. The juxtaposition of the two ways of perceiving

   • And the two ways of processing is what led Kolb to describe a four-quadrant model to explain learning styles.
     • Involve yourself fully and without prejudice in the situations that arise.
       • Manage to reflect on these experiences and perceive them from various approaches
         • Generate concepts and integrate your observations into logically sound theories
           • Be able to use these theories to make decisions and solve problems.

5. Kolb's model claims to obtain optimal learning, it is necessary to work the information in four phases:

   • Act
     • Reflect
       • Theorize
         • To experience