Experiential Learning and Reflection Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering core terms, frameworks, and academic citations related to experiential education and reflection.

Experiential Learning Model

A learning process structured around five stages: experiencing, sharing, processing, generalizing, and applying.

Rodgers (2002) Definition of Reflection

The process of making meaning by identifying relationships and continuities within an experience, between different experiences, and between experience and existing knowledge.

Zones of Comfort Framework

A framework demonstrating that an activity does not inherently belong to a specific challenge level; instead, the zone belongs to the individual learner.

Boud and Walker (1998) Warning on Reflection

The caution that reflection can become ritualized when learners simply go through expected motions or produce responses they think they are supposed to give.

Reflective Journaling (Deepa & Mansurali, 2022)

A practice that can shift ownership of learning toward the learner and support the transition from surface learning to deeper evaluation and change.

Hartmann et al. (2023) Continuity Concept

The concept that reflection connects one experience to the next, allowing learning to carry forward rather than remaining isolated within a particular moment.

Room to Reflect

The author's pre-seminar self-paced lesson arguing that experience alone does not result in learning without reflection creating raw material into meaning.

Container

The combination of people, physical environment, level of challenge, facilitation, and space for reflection that surrounds an experience to allow learners to construct meaning.

Learning Transfer

The act of examining an experience—why it worked and how it felt—and using what was learned to choose how to approach subsequent experiences.

Herrington et al. (2014) Reflection Concept

The framework connecting reflection with intentional learning, explaining why revisiting an experience can directly influence what comes next.