Essays on Kolb

Reflection Paper

Reflection Paper

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In this article, Maura Sellars examines the role of the teacher as a change agent through reflective practice. The author argues that it is the teachers and not education authorities, curriculum developers, or policy makers who are the most effective, durable, and powerful agents of educational change. She also contends that the reliability and proficiency of change in education practice depend largely on the capacity of teachers to develop self-knowledge and reflective practice. According to the Sellars (2012), historically, these aspects of teacher development have not been emphasized in the process of preparing and promoting effective teachers. ...

Women in the law enforcement and military have some shared experiences that civilian women do not usually have. The police and military work gives these women more experience in term of skills and expertise or knowledge than their civilian counterparts in important ways. Experiential learning by David Kolb may be important in understanding the differences in the experiences of army or law enforcement and civilian women. This type of learning facilitates education involving direct participation in real life events and settings. It also involves the formation of abstract concepts, reflection and observation, and concrete experience besides concrete experience, reflection ...

The strict moral code and practice of ethics in academia is known as academic integrity. This policy includes a strict avoidance of such illicit behaviors as plagiarism and cheating of any sort. The maintaining of academic integrity has to do with keeping standards to a minimum level, engaging in honest and forthright behavior. This includes showing moral rigor in the process of research and publishing of academic works. Academic integrity is the cornerstone of responsibility that each student is required to adhere to during their time as a student. The importance of academic integrity is not just to prevent ...

Interview

Introduction The interviewee is the president of the concourse institute. The major area of interest is recruitment and how companies can ensure that they get the best hand for the job. The president of a company is responsible for all the employees at the organization. Concourse Institute is located in Mumbai and is specifically interested in IT courses. As explored in this paper, Kolb’s experimental learning theory, Ajzen’s planned behavior theory, Schwartz value motive theory and the six hats thinking tool explain how managers perform their role. A manager’s greatest asset is people, and when handled ...

I believe that learning and creativity are closely intertwined. In our everyday life, every person probably experiences learning at one point or the other. Learning is integral to life. There are a myriad experiences and activities that are new to each and every person every day. As a child I learnt how to speak a ride bicycle with the help of my friends. It took a while but eventually I was able to balance myself on the two wheels: something I believed impossible. When I finally tested myself on a motorcycle in my teenage years, the only skill I ...

Introduction

Marketing represents a form of communication between business establishments and the consumers with the aim of selling or introducing new products and services. The success of a company’s sales therefore directly relates to the marketing strategies it employs. Through this essay, the author looks at the principle of marketing regarding Portakabin as a major company involved in the promotion of its products. The essay also highlights the elements of the marketing process, the costs and benefits of marketing orientation, the micro and macro environmental factors that affect business, and market segmentation for the company. Additionally, the competitive advantage ...

Introduction

Experiential learning is one of the most important methods that people from the academe, most especially educators apply to help students develop his/her emotional, cognitive, and social values. Experiential learning is basically learning through first-hand experience, action, discovery, and exploration. It is important for observational learners which needs actual application of concepts to understand it (Brock et al., 2012). Immersing oneself in an unfamiliar territory is an important way to teach people, especially students, on what it is really like to be part of a certain community, and it is also one way for them to understand why people ...

Problem Statement

Understanding the impact of culture on student learning is very critical to the provision of good quality education to learners. The global population is made of people with different cultures. In learning institutions, it is common to find a class made up of students and instructors from different communities with different cultural perspectives. Culture defines people’s way of life and comprises beliefs, knowledge, symbols, values, and behaviors. In a learning environment, there is a student’s culture, instructor’s culture, and the culture of people in the surrounding environment. Culture in such a case can be homogenous (where ...

Reflective Essay Assignment Recruitment and Selection with Observed Skills

We understand that the role of human resource department is very critical in ensuring that the right candidates are chosen for the right position and that the skills and knowledge of employees are up graded as per the market changes and current market needs. The role of recruitment and selection is very important in this regard. Recruitment and selection are the basic functions of human resource department along with other functions such as setting up compensation and benefits packaging and developing career management and career development paths for all employees (Lievens, Filip, and Chapman, 145). The role of recruitment ...

Social justice refers to the fair relationship between an individual and society, and it includes equality in the distribution of wealth, opportunities, rights and social privileges. However, in other societies, this phenomenon is not easily achievable, and there is apparent oppression, inequality, and deprivation of fundamental rights to some individuals by gender, class or social status. Gender inequality has been one of the topics of contention not only in developing countries but the whole world. Women have often been discriminated in issues concerning jobs, education, and even sports. Gender equality has been a far-fetched ideology in some parts of ...

The VARK test has been analyzed and criticized by several people and in several publications, for example:

In August 2009 Walter Leite(Research and Evaluation Methodology program, University of Florida), Marilla Svinicki(University of Texas at Austin) and Yuying Shi also from the University of Florida conducted a test to examine the validity of the scores of the VARK. They mainly focused on the dimentionality of the learning style inventory associated with VARK. From the study it was found that there was preliminary support for the validity of the VARK scores.

There were however concerns about the scoring algorithm and item wording. As a result therefore, it was established that caution needed to be exercised whenever VARK was ...