John: Anyway I appreciate that idea of experiential education a lot now, more than I did a couple weeks ago.
Chad: Yeah, it’s, it’s definitely a huge theoretical lens I look through it. And there’s a lot of great research to back it up, starting all the way back with John Dewey back in the thirties and forties and continuing all now through your cult learning cycle. Talking about this experiential cycle where we take an experience and we learn about the event and then we reflect on it, we integrate into our lives, and then we go back out in the world with this new integrated knowledge and see if we can apply it in the next area.
And that’s the lens that pretty much all adventure education falls underneath. So experience education is a very wide berth because it can take place in pretty much any field just like you were explaining in the electrical engineering field. I mean, it’s when we finally get off our butts and we start doing. But there are intricate components of it because we’re really good at doing, but not necessarily at reflecting.
And reflection is a huge component of that cycle. And so one of the things I really focus on is that component of being able to reflect on the actual doing. Again, we’re good at Doing, but you know, if you’re gonna really integrate it and have some better outcomes, you need some active reflection in it.
John: Hmm.
