MODEL OF DAVID KOLB

MODEL OF DAVID KOLB

Wikipedia say about David Kolb:

"David A. Kolb (born 1939) is an American educational theorist whose interests and publications focus on experiential learning, the individual and social change, career development, and executive and professional education. He is the founder and chairman of Experience Based Learning Systems, Inc. (EBLS), and a Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Kolb earned his BA from Knox College in 1961 and his MA and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1964 and 1967 respectively, in social psychology."

But more than his biography, the most interesting is the model that relies on four elements:

• Concrete experience, 
• Observation of and reflection on that experience, 
• Formation of abstract concepts based upon the reflection, 
• Testing the new concepts, 
• (repeat). 

Searching in google I found this very intersante link. Kitzia Garcia, Eduardo Herrera and Sara Luevanos made a video showing in detail the model of Kolb.

From about three years ago, since my admission to SENA, I used the model of Kolb with new apprentices to help them identify as they learn. I prepared my own presentation on learning styles, considering not only the model of Kolb. I start with an understanding of the brain, then go to the cerebral hemispheres, later I explain to the schemes of representation (visual, auditory, kinesthetic), after I work Kolb's model and finally I explain the model emotional intelligence.

MY KOLB'S MODEL

MY KOLB'S MODEL II

MY LEARNING STYLES PRESENTATION

SENA used this model because it believes supports its pedagogical model and takes into account the work to be performed by a person to learn a skill, that is, so that person can become competent:

• Act, 
• Think, 
• Theorize and 
• Experiment.