How You Learn Is How You Live

References

Experiential Learning Theory is a synthesis of the works those great scholars who gave experience a central role in their theories of human learning and development. We have come to call them the “foundational scholars of experiential learning”: William James, John Dewey, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, Carl Jung, Mary Parker Follett, Carl Rogers, and Paulo Freire. The figure below depicts these foundational scholars of ELT and a summary of their contributions to experiential learning. Their contributions span over one hundred years beginning the end of the nineteenth century with William James, John Dewey, and Mary Parker Follett and ending at the end of the twentieth century with the deaths of Carl Rogers and Paulo Freire. ...