Includes bibliographical references and index.

ch. 1 The Foundations of Contemporary Approaches to Experiential Learning -- Experiential Learning in Higher Education: The Legacy of John Dewey -- Experiential Learning in Training and Organization Development: The Contributions of Kurt Lewin -- Jean Piaget and the Cognitive-Development Tradition of Experiential Learning -- Other Contributions to Experiential Learning Theory -- Update and Reflections -- Foundational Scholars of Experiential Learning Theory -- Liminal Scholars -- Contributions to Experiential Learning -- ch. 2 The Process of Experiential Learning -- Three Models of the Experiential Learning Process -- Characteristics of Experiential Learning -- Summary: A Definition of Learning -- Update and Reflections -- The Learning Cycle and the Learning Spiral -- Understanding the Learning Cycle -- The Learning Spiral -- ch. 3 Structural Foundations of the Learning Process -- Process and Structure in Experiential Learning -- The Prehension Dimension-Apprehension Versus Comprehension -- The Transformation Dimension-Intention and Extension -- Summary -- Update and Reflections -- Experiential Learning and the Brain -- James Zull and the Link between the Learning Cycle and Brain Functioning -- My Brain Made Me Do It? -- ch. 4 Individuality in Learning and the Concept of Learning Styles -- The Scientific Study of Individuality -- Learning Styles as Possibility-Processing Structures -- Assessing Individual Learning Styles: The Learning Style Inventory -- Evidence for the Structure of Learning -- Characteristics of the Basic Learning Styles -- Summary and Conclusion -- Update and Reflections -- Individuality, the Self, and Learning Style -- Western and Eastern Views of the Self -- Experiential Learning and the Self -- Learning Style --

ch. 5 The Structure of Knowledge -- Apprehension vs. Comprehension-A Dual-Knowledge Theory -- The Dialectics of Apprehension and Comprehension -- The Structure of Social Knowledge: World Hypotheses -- Summary -- Social Knowledge as Living Systems of Inquiry-The Relation between the Structure of Knowledge and Fields of Inquiry and Endeavor -- Update and Reflections -- The Spiral of Knowledge Creation -- Personal Characteristics and Ways of Knowing -- Knowledge Structures and Disciplinary Learning Spaces -- The knowledge Structures of Experiential Learning -- ch. 6 The Experiential Learning Theory of Development -- Learning and Development as Transactions between Person and Environment. -- Differentiation and Integration in Development -- Unilinear vs. Multilinear Development -- The Experiential Learning Theory of Development -- Consciousness, Learning, and Development -- Adaptation, Consciousness, and Development -- Update and Reflections -- Culture and Context -- Individual Differences and Multilinear Development -- Integration and Advanced Stages of Adult Development -- Implications for Experiential Learning Theory Development Theory -- ch. 7 Learning and Development in Higher Education -- Specialized Development and the Process of Accentuation -- Undergraduate Student Development in a Technological University -- Professional Education and Career Adaptation -- A Comparative Study of Professional Education in Social Work and Engineering -- Managing the Learning Process -- Implications for Higher Education -- Update and Reflections -- Becoming an Experiential Educator -- ch. 8 Lifelong Learning and Integrative Development -- Adaptive Flexibility and Integrative Development -- On Integrity and Integrative Knowledge -- Update and Reflections -- Lifelong Learning and the Learning Way.