Journaling and Experiential Learning Practice Flashcards

A set of 10 vocabulary flashcards based on the lecture notes regarding the role of journaling and reflection in experiential learning.

Meaning-making

The function of reflection that formulates relationships and continuities among the elements of an experience, one's knowledge, and other experiences.

Reflection

The mechanism that converts raw experience into durable learning and links one experience to the next so lessons carry forward.

Surface learning

A level of learning characterized by simple remembering, contrasted with evaluating and changing.

Deep learning

A level of learning that involves evaluating and changing, which shifts the ownership of the learning to the learner.

Intentional learning

Learning that is oriented to a purpose through reflection, rather than being incidental.

Formulation

The process of putting an experience into words, which identifies both the strengths and the gaps in a learner's understanding.

Space

A condition for reflection described as a judgement-free, unhurried environment where the mind can wander.

Company

Interaction with others that deepens reflection by surfacing insights a learner might have missed alone.

Rumination

A failure of unstructured reflection where the learner circles the same feelings without moving forward.

Ritualization

A failure of reflection, as warned by Boud and Walker (1998), where the process hardens into rule-following or going through the motions.