Knowledge Management

David Kolb’s Contribution

This might explain the irony of why the subject of experiential learning, however deafening its logic, is not widely accepted within traditional academic business disciplines. In fact its efficacy has been recognized for almost a century (see Chapter 4 of this volume), with the most modern proponents being David Kolb, professor of organizational behavior at Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, and his associate Roger Fry who have taken the concept to its most developed stage by integrating multiple epistemologies into a formal theory of learning (Kolb, 1984).

The model incorporates identifying an experience or problem situation, a reflective phase within which the learner examines the ...