CHAPTER 14

Principle 9: Repetition and Reinforcement

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

—Carl Jung

Definition

Practice brings mastery and positive reinforcement increases the assimilation.

Nick: This sounds very different from all the principles we have been discussing. They were humanistic, cognitivist, or based on a postmodern constructivist paradigm, and this sounds like old classic behaviorism: linear cause–effect.

That is true! And it is one of the interesting characteristics of Action Reflection Learning (ARL). Remember ...

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