Knowledge Management

Chapter 4. How the Experiential Learning Baton Was Passed

Conceptions are usually one person’s exclusive output, but their development is always organic—the building of one bit of understanding upon another, exactly like experiential learning.

The genus, which focuses on how people learn, has its origins in the field of psychology, philosophy, and physiology, not education or industry. In the first half of the 20th century, so-called behaviorialism—a Pavlovian view of human behavior—dominated the field. Without knowledge of what was going on in the brain, scientists limited their theories to aspects of stimulus and response, a view that eventually spilled over into other disciplines such as education, sociology, and even linguistics.

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