Talk:Learning cycle

Not the only learning cycle

Isn't there also a Learning Cycle theorised by Kolb of Do > Review > Learn > Apply; which is linked to his theory of learning styles? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.140.56.43 (talk • contribs) 15:16, 26 March 2006‎ (UTC)

Nearly. The cycle was developed by Honey and Mumford, based on Kolb's ideas of learning styles. See Learning styles#Peter Honey and Alan Mumford's model.

But your point still holds. The cycle currently on the page isn't the only learning cycle. Its not even the most notable learning cycle. I think Honey and Mumford should be up there, and so should the OODA loop.

I may have a go at drafting an article about learning cycles in general with section's on Honey and Mumford etc.

N.B. Although the only source for the article is currently a dead link, you can access it using the Wayback Machine, here. A quick Google search indicates this is more commonly known as the 5E model. It is explained well by NASA here.

Yaris678 (talk) 13:11, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

PAR cycle

This reference discusses the importance of cycles for learning in participatory action research. I may add something on that when I get a moment. Yaris678 (talk) 15:14, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Looking further into participatory action research, I started reading the article about Kurt Lewin. It quotes his paper Action Research and Minority Problems

In that paper, he described action research as “a comparative research on the conditions and effects of various forms of social action and research leading to social action” that uses “a spiral of steps, each of which is composed of a circle of planning, action, and fact-finding about the result of the action”.

(I can't find the exact quotes in the linked paper. I will check when I have access to OCR software.)

The term "learning cycle" isn't there... but that is what he is describing. Perhaps the section should be called "action research" and perhaps PAR is an extention of it.

Yaris678 (talk) 15:45, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Accelerated learning cycle

We could also add something on the "accelerated learning cycle" by Alistair Smith. I gather he published the idea in Accelerated Learning in the Classroom. That link won't actually show us the pages of the book, but a Google search throws up lots of stuff, like this blog post that makes it clear what it is.

Yaris678 (talk) 16:00, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

I've been looking for secondary sources about the accelerated learning cycle. Not sure if the blog, linked to above, is the best source. There are lots of school websites that talk about it, which is a good sign but something more solid would be nice.

I've found this review of Accelerated Learning in the Classroom. The reviewer is Professor Rupert Wegerif, so that's good. Wegerif is quite dismissive of some of the theories in the book but says that a lot of the ideas for teaching are good and he says "The ‘cycle of learning’ idea is not original to Accelerated Learning but Smith’s presentation of it is new, bringing together a number of different sources." I think this makes it worth including the "accelerated learning cycle" in this article.

Yaris678 (talk) 11:36, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Applications section?

I think it would help to have a section on applications. PAR, agile, Eddie Obeng's ideas about foggy projects... Yaris678 (talk) 08:49, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Yaris678: I would advise against putting too much work into a section on applications, since the learning cycle is relevant to nearly any human endeavor that involves an iterative cycle of learning and action. I've added action learning and action research to the See also section, and you're welcome to add any other articles that you think are especially relevant. Biogeographist (talk) 13:36, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Vasquez

Yaris678: I think the Vasquez citation that you recently removed from the section on Honey and Mumford certainly applies to their work (and it cites their work as an example), but I see your point that the Vasquez citation is about learning styles in general rather than about Honey and Mumford's work in particular. I will try to add the Vasquez citation to Learning styles § Criticism. As long as the current link to Learning styles § Criticism remains, that should be a sufficient cross-reference for readers. Thanks, Biogeographist (talk) 13:31, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Yes. I think Learning styles § Criticism is the right place to cite that source. I have to admit that I didn't check if it was cited there already - I assumed it was. Glad you have corrected that problem! Yaris678 (talk) 21:26, 11 August 2015 (UTC)