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Our success in life and living depends largely on our ability to learn from experience. Direct contact with things and persons affects every facet of our lives-behavior, perception, autonomy and creativity.
This overview of experiential learning explores the process of learning from experience, showing how it affects one's personality and offers means to cope with feelings of powerlessness and insignificance. The book describes the conditions under which experiential learning results in personal growth and those in which growth is inhibited. It shows how we test the validity of our interpretations and how we resist such tests.
Learning to Learn from Experience examines the learning process in various types of social relationships. It shows how learning in large groups differs from that in intimate circles. Finally it illustrates the interrelationships between experiential and academic learning.
This book also provides a wealth of practical strategies and tools enabling the reader to prepare for useful experiential learning.
Preface
I. Effective and Ineffective Uses of Experience
ONE Learning and the Struggle to Be
Learning to Be a Significant Person
Dysfunctional Learning: A Humanistic View
TWO The Four Kinds of Experiential Learning
A Story of Learning From Experience (Dorothy Canfield)
A Model of Experiential Learning
Applying the Model
THREE Mapping Experience
FOUR Resistance to Learning
II. Learning In Three Areas of Life
FIVE Changing Our Emotions
Emotions, Feelings and Judgments
Functional and Dysfunctional Emotions
SIX Learning to Know Other Persons
Empathic Knowing
The Content of Personal Knowledge: Images
The Content of Personal Knowledge: Style
Seeing a Pattern
Doubting That We Can Know
SEVEN Learning and Life in the Organization
III. Some Strategies and Tools
EIGHT Active and Passive Experiencing
Asking the Right Questions
Cleansing the Doors of Perception
NINE Different Ways People Learn
A Profile of Learning Skills
Basic Skills in Experiential Learning
Creating a Profile of Your Skills
TEN The Journal as a Tool in Experiential Learning
Notes
Index