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Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Forerunner of Experiential Learning Theory
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Forerunner of Experiential Learning Theory

Author(s): Dorina Salavastru
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi
Keywords: negative education; education in accordance with nature; experiential learning, learning styles; learning cycle.

Summary/Abstract: The novel Emile or On Education was analyzed mostly from a pedagogical perspective, as the work which draws best the general principles of an education “in accordance with nature”. This paper proposes to reread the pedagogical novel Emile or On Education from a psychological perspective because we can find many ideas, extremely original and modern for that period, regarding the learning process. This paper analyses Rousseau’s outlook regarding the essential role which experience occupies within the learning process, outlook which places him among the forerunners of the modern psychology. The learning model proposed by Rousseau is linked to the cycle of the experiential learning, devised, almost three centuries later, by David Kolb. The similarities between the two models point out, once more, just how progressive were Rousseau’s ideas regarding the learning process.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: XVI
  • Page Range: 19-30
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English