Kolb Experiential Learning Cycle P6: Learning as the creation of knowledge: fit the approach to the kind of knowledge

What does P6 require?

Knowledge is created in the transaction between social knowledge (the accumulated, objective culture) and personal knowledge (the individual's subjective experience), so understanding learning requires understanding the nature of knowledge and the reverse. Kolb reports that he found it essential to take the nature of the subject matter into account when deciding how to help students learn (empathic listening is taught differently from statistics) and that communication failures in organisations often rest on conflicting assumptions about knowledge and truth; he recommends partial scepticism toward any refined knowledge system. The practice implied is to choose methods to suit the knowledge structure of the field and to treat learners as creators, not only receivers, of knowledge.