ABSTRACT
Chapters 6 and 7 have attempted to tease out the meaning of reflective learning in order to provide a basis for the more practical approach in later chapters. A similar process will be applied to experiential learning. As with reflective learning, one concern of this book is to consider its relationship to the literature of learning as well as to its own literature (i.e., on experiential learning). A further stage is to consider to what degree reflective and experiential learning refer to the same or similar processes and to what degree they are distinctive. This is complicated by the fact – as will become evident in this chapter – that experiential learning is seen in a number of different ways with different processes therefore being involved. Often it is the allocation of a common term – ‘experiential learning’ or ‘learning from experience’ that often seems to be the factor in common between these diverse behaviours. Terminology is discussed below.
