Making Knowledge/Playing Culture: Theatre Festivals as Sites of Experiential Learning

Contemporary Theatre and the Experiential

In the context of the blurring of boundaries between club and theatre, game and theatre, and party and theatre, experiential spectatorship is spilling into the mainstream. This article starts from the recognition of the rapid rise of the experience economy as a turning point in consumer culture towards a specific appeal to the sensory body. The definition of experience in this analysis is key a...

Experiential learning as a method to enhance experiential teaching

Learning Systems Organising Reflection – Organisational Learning as Collective, Experiential Learning

The article discusses shifts and continuities in practical and theoretical work on organisational learning since the mid 1980s within a tradition at the Work Research Institute (WRI) in Oslo promoting work place democracy. Projects over 20 years are reviewed. All the projects discussed have had a participatory action research design. The point, however, is the emerging justifications for the ch...

Tasks, experiential learning and meaning making activities: a functional approach

It is important for task-based learning and teaching research to focus on academic content tasks that involve form and meaning, language and content, and academic discourse and disciplinary knowledge. This is needed to address problems such as low academic achievement by English language learners. We argue that the SFL approach to language, particularly in the area of ‘field’ and ideational mea...

Relationship between Student Pharmacist Decision Making Preferences and Experiential Learning.

Objective. To determine if student pharmacists' preferences towards experiential and rational thinking are associated with performance on advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs) and whether thinking style preference changes following APPEs. Methods. The Rational Experiential Inventory (REI), a validated survey of thinking style, was administered to student pharmacists before starting APP...