30 Unit 28 « Human-centred Studies for professional & personal development

30 Unit 28

TWO PROPHETS, ONE SOUL: REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND RABBI ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Module 28: Action, Activism and Behaviour

Module description:

In relation to a working definition of the process of holistic development this module looks at the nature of, and use of, the idea of ‘action, activism and behaviour’ by the teacher, or other practitioner, so as to encourage learning, professional development and/or personal growth.

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learning from experience

David Kolb’s famous circle of learning.

SEE Tony Jeffs and Mark K Smith http://www.infed.org/foundations/f-explrn.htm

A well-known way of describing experiential learning takes the form of a circle.

Experiential learning (after Lewin and Kolb)

This diagram is a version of one included in David Kolb (1984)
Experiential Learning, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.

The process begins with a person carrying out an action and then seeing the effect of the action on and in the situation. Following this, a second step is to understand these effects in the situation . This is so that if the same action were taken in similar circumstances it would be possible to anticipate what would follow from the action. In the third step these observations and reflections are then brought together into a ‘theory’ from which new implications for action can be worked out. The last step is then to use the ‘theory’ as a guide to acting in a new situation.

Introductory reading/s to get started:

See OLPC One4 Laptop per Child http://laptop.org/