My wife and I are both educators trying to implement experiential learning in our classrooms, but we keep getting into arguments about whether reflection should be structured or emergent — she swears by Kolb's four-stage cycle while I'm more drawn to Dewey's emphasis on genuine problems arising from experience. Our dinner conversations have become philosophical battlegrounds and I think we're both losing sight of what actually works for our students.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people committed to the same pedagogical vision are discovering that their different interpretations of core principles are creating conflict rather than collaboration.
“Where Are You with Experiential learning — Dewey and Kolb?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.