Experiential Learning

Experiential Learning enables educators, trainers, coaches and facilitators to unleash some of the more potent ingredients of learning through experience. It presents a simple model: the Learning Combination Lock, which illustrates the wide range of factors that can be altered to enhance the learning experience. The theory is brought to life with hundreds of examples from around the world and covers issues such as: experience and intelligence; facilitation, good practice and ethics; learning environments; experiential learning activities; and working with the senses and emotions. Experiential Learning offers the skills that can be successfully applied to a variety of settings including management education, corporate training, team-building, youth-development work, counselling and therapy, schools and higher education and special needs training. This fully updated third edition includes guidance for coaches, cutting edge new material on sensory intelligence and updated models, tools and case studies throughout. "Full of creative ideas that can be used by trainers and facilitators to develop their range of skills." People Management "The range of coverage is impressive." Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning "Beard and Wilson manage to smoothly lead the reader on a superlative tour of must see concepts and principles." Horizons Magazine "This book is valuable for all the boundary crossing it does. Other books on the subject do not go far beyond the walls of higher education, but this book draws on a huge range of sources... A stimulating collection of ideas and examples that encourages experimentation." Dr Roger Greenaway, Reviewing Skills Training "I think you have written a beauty here and I suspect it is going places." International Association of Experiential Education