Kolb’s leaning cycle



Kolb's experiential learning style theory is typically represented by a four-stage learning cycle in which the learner 'touches all the bases

1. Concrete Experience - a new experience or situation is encountered, or a reinterpretation of existing experience.

2. Reflective Observation of the New Experience - of particular importance are any inconsistencies between experience and understanding.

3. Abstract Conceptualization reflection gives rise to a new idea, or a modification of an existing abstract concept (the person has learned from their experience).

4. Active Experimentation - the learner applies their idea(s) to the world around them to see what happens.

Learning Styles

Kolb's learning theory (1974) sets out four distinct learning styles, which are based on a four-stage learning cycle (see above). Kolb explains that different people naturally prefer a certain single different learning style.

Various factors influence a person's preferred style.  For example, social environment, educational experiences, or the basic cognitive structure of the individual.

Whatever influences the choice of style, the learning style preference itself is actually the product of two pairs of variables, or two separate 'choices' that we make, which Kolb presented as lines of an axis, each with 'conflicting' modes at either end

A typical presentation of Kolb's two continuums is that the east-west axis is called the Processing Continuum (how we approach a task), and the north-south axis is called the Perception Continuum (our emotional response, or how we think or feel about it).

reference-https://www.simplypsychology.org/learning-kolb.html