Imagine you are Thai and a member of a management team from a European company that acts in an Asian emerging market. Imagine you are a European expat with the assignment to double the turnover from that Asian company in a few years. Imagine you are a Change Maker and they ask you to facilitate the (multinational) management team of that Asian…

As part of a professional development program organized by the Save Ellis Island Foundation, the exhibits, databases, photo archives, and recorded interviews at the island's museum helps put the nation's current immigration debate into a broader historical context. Teachers at these sessions learn from scholars and park personnel about early…

The death of a white rat provides a student with immediate learning. (IRT)

Highlights the important role of experiences in the social and cultural context, prior knowledge, and the emotional aspects of learning in relation to self-directed learning in life. Summarizes important aspects of process-oriented teaching in four principles, and discusses the challenges for teachers and schools in developing a process oriented…

Mentors can prepare themselves for their role through guided reflection and exploration with the assistance of a supervisor. Techniques include reframing, cooperative inquiry, personal contracts, and journal writing. (Contains 17 references.) (SK)

Asserts that experiential learning theories view experience as liberating only insofar as it frees one from the influence of others. Uses Bakhtin's notion of carnival to develop an alternative view that includes collectivist social movements, destabilization of the unitary self, and challenges to gender identity. (SK)

Discusses ways in which gestalt theory can inform learning organization practice regarding concepts of learning, holism, relation to environment, mental models, and team learning. (SK)

Studies Kolb's eclectic method of constructing a model of experiential learning, comparing his interpretation of Dewey's ideas to Dewey's concepts of reflective thought and action. Concludes that Kolb's notion of immediate concrete experience is epistemologically problematic. (SK)

Models of experiential learning, organizational learning, and knowledge creation can assist in analyzing learning at work. Workplace learning can be conceptualized as intertwined processes of individual, group, and organizational learning. (Contains 21 references.) (SK)

According to Woolcock, social capital can be defined as the "norms and networks facilitating collective action for mutual benefit". Furthermore, Gabbay and Leenders suggest that social capital offers some potential for integrating the proliferation of network research that has been developed over the last 30 years. Examines an innovatory…

Samuel Weeks lived a modest life, learned from his deficits, and taught his children the true meaning of life. His daughter, Doris who called him an ethics professor became a teacher and illustrated the role her father's experiences played in her career in the form of a story.

This paper reports some of the findings from an evaluation of the New Visions programme, piloted by the National College for School Leadership in 2002-2003. The programme is targeted at school leaders in their first three years of headship and has a strong emphasis on experiential learning. The evaluation evidence is deployed against an earlier…

One may have heard of reality TV, but what about reality learning? The latter is probably a term one hasn't seen much, although it is in many ways a clearer and more concise name for a concept that in 2006 marks its 100th anniversary: cooperative education, or "co-op." Co-op, a break-through idea pioneered at the University of Cincinnati by Herman…

A purposive sampling and analysis of ten case histories of action learning in the US suggests that applications tend to be partial, hierarchical, and leader controlled, thus running counter in several significant ways to the gold standard of Revans' action learning theory and egalitarian rules of engagement. Using critical markers to inspect the…