Kolb believes that learning is not the acquisition and transmission of content, but the process of creating knowledge through the transformation of experience. He used the learning cycle model to describe experiential learning. The model includes four steps:

1, actual experience and experience-devote yourself to the local actual experience activities at that time.

2. Observation and reflection-observing and thinking about actual experience activities and experiences from multiple angles.

3. Formation and induction of abstract concepts-logical concepts and theories are abstracted through observation and thinking.

4. Test the significance of new concepts in the new environment-use these theories to make decisions and solve problems, and verify your newly formed concepts and theories in practical work.

Extended data:

David kolb explained experiential learning as an experiential cycle process: concrete experience-reflection on experience-forming an abstract concept-action experiment-concrete experience, and so on, forming a whole learning experience, in which learners automatically complete feedback and adjustment, go through a learning process and know through experience.

There are two basic structural dimensions in the learning process. The first one is called the dimension of comprehension, which includes two opposing modes of mastering experience: one is to directly comprehend specific experiences; The second is to indirectly understand the experience represented by symbols. The second dimension, called transformation dimension, includes two opposing experience transformation modes: one is through internal reflection; The second is through external action. Both of them are indispensable in the learning process.

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