Using Experience For Learning (Society for Research Into Higher Education) - Softcover

Boud, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335190952 ISBN 13: 9780335190959

Publisher: Open University Press, 1993

Synopsis

What are the key ideas that underpin learning from experience? How do we learn from experience? How does context and purpose influence learning? How does experience impact on individual and group learning? How can we help others to learn from their experience?

"Using Experience for Learning" reflects current interest in the importance of experience in informal and formal learning, whether it be applied for course credit, new forms of learning in the workplace, or acknowledging autonomous learning outside educational institutions. It also emphasizes the role of personal experience in learning: ideas are not separate from experience; relationships and personal interests impact on learning; and emotions have a vital part to play in intellectual learning. All the contributors write themselves into their chapters, giving an autobiographical account of how their experiences have influenced their learning and what has led them to their current views and practice.

"Using Experience for Learning" brings together a wide range of perspectives and conceptual frameworks with contributors from four continents, and should be a valuable addition to the field of experiential learning.

About this title

Synopsis

This book is about the struggle to make sense of learning from experience. What are the key ideas that underpin learning from experience? How do we learn from experience? How does context and purpose influence learning? How can we help others to learn from their experience?

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335190952
• ISBN 13: 9780335190959
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200