Kolb's Learning Style

Introduction

In this academic essay, the author will attempt to discuss the role in which an individual person’s learning style plays in his/her learning. In addition, it will focus on what is meant by learning and learning style. Outline the different learning styles that exist. Discuss how learning styles are said to affect the way in which people learn. To provide sufficient evidence that learning is influenced or cannot be influenced by learning styles and to give personal insight from the author’s perspective about previous experience of learning and preferred style of learning they prefer to use.

The author will include various different academic resources in order to give a greater understanding of learning styles and learning in

Among the most renowned is, (Kolb, 1984) whom had presented the idea of learning as a cycle, which is constantly changing. He named this cycle, “The Kolb’s cycle of Experiential learning”, (Kolb, 1984). Kolb came up with 4 key components of this cycle, which he believed could be used as a learning style. They are:

1: “Concrete Experience” (Kolb, 1984): This involves doing or having the experience.

2: “Reflective Observation” (Kolb, 1984): This is reviewing or reflecting on the experience.

3: “Abstract Conceptualisation” (Kolb, 1984): Conclusion or learning from your experience.

4: “Active Experimentation” (Kolb, 1984): Planning and/or attempting to find out what you have learned. The cycle is continuous, meaning that it will always start again from the first place it began in and it’s never ending.

From this it is easy to understand why academics such as the likes of Sebatian Kunzel would argued that from a psychological point of view, learning is a continuous journey or a lifelong process, (Künzel, 2013). It is not always changing unlike

Apply their own understanding to the discussion and then putting points across to other people to hear. More often enough the person prefers to take a thoughtful approach in making decisions .That way not to hurt people’s feelings but by thinking in different perspectives towards other people. As a person to have the tendency to heed towards correction in their own time, for example, this author prefers to reflect back on a situation before accepting any consequences with it. At the end of the day, one always has the opportunity to think about what has happened throughout the day, what could have been learned and what they could have done