Making Sense of Adult Learning: Experiential Learning

Eduard Lindeman has described learning, when combined with action, as having the qualities to enrich and solidify an experience. By engaging in a practice of learning through action, he states that “life itself becomes a perpetual experience of learning” (Keregero, 1989, p. 196). Building on this concept, a host of theorists and researchers working in the field of experiential learning have been establishing a foundation for the field and providing a stepping‐stone from which to evolve into the future. This paper explores the current state of affairs in the field of experiential learning.