"Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. Knowledge results from the combination of grasping experience and transforming it." Kolb (1985)
Kolb's Learning Styles Theory suggests that:
1) Learners process experience from four different perspectives that fall along two contiuums: feeling to thinking and watching to doing.
2) Individual learners vary in their preference for one part of the learning cycle. An individual's preference is referred to as a learning style. Kolb's styles include Diverger, Converger, Accommodater and Assimilator.
3) Despite style preferences, to achieve real learning, attention must be given to all parts of the process.
Kolb's Learning Styles theory and learning process
Sources:
Diagram retrieved March 2, 2012 from http://www.businessballs.com/kolblearningstyles.htm
Kolb, D. (1985) Learning Styles Inventory. Boston, MA: McBer and Company