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Title: Experiential Learning and City As Text[C]: Reflections on Kolb and Kolb (Essay)
Author : Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council
Release Date : January 22, 2007
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 198 KB

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The ancient Greek followers of Aristotle were called the Peripatetics, apparently because their teacher taught philosophy as they walked under the peripatos ("covered walk") of the Lyceum, an area just outside of Athens. As a graduate student I thought this had to be a rather inefficient way of teaching, conjuring as it did an image of students jostling to get close to the teacher, some rushing to keep pace while asking questions or taking notes and others distracted by a bird flying overhead. City as Text[C] (CAT) has made me rethink the facile assumptions behind that image. Maybe walking around in a particular place is an especially appropriate way of learning. I am a philosopher by training, and "experiential learning" is not a term I would have used when I began as a college teacher to describe my approach to teaching. I have taught what philosophers say about experience--but only in a rather abstract way. We have not philosophized about what we have experienced together. But I do like to walk around cities, and a number of years ago I participated in my first City-as-Text exploration as part of a National Collegiate Honors Council conference. What I chose then as simply a pleasant way to spend an afternoon has led to a very enriching professional and personal journey. CAT has been not simply another good teaching method but an opportunity to reconsider all of my teaching.