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or two separate 'choices' that we make, which Kolb presented as
lines of axis, each with 'conflicting' modes at either end:
Concrete Experience - CE
(feeling)
----V----Abstract
Conceptualization
AC
(thinking)
Active Experimentation - AE
(doing)--V---Reflective
Observation - RO (watching)
A typical presentation of Kolb's
two continuums is that the east-west axis is called the
Processing Continuum (how we approach a task), and the
north-south axis is called the Perception Continuum (our
emotional response, or how we think or feel about it).
Kolb believed that we cannot perform both variables on a single
axis at the same time (e.g. think and feel).
Our learning style is a product of these two choice decisions.
It's often easier to see the construction of Kolb's learning styles
in terms of a two-by-two matrix. Each learning style represents a
combination of two preferred styles. The diagram also highlights
Kolb's terminology for the four learning styles; diverging,
assimilating, and converging, accommodating:
Doing (Active
Experimentation AE)
Accommodating
(CE/AE)

Watching
(Reflective
Observation - RO)
Feeling (Concrete
Diverging
Experience - CE)
(CE/RO)
Thinking (Abstract
Assimilating
Converging (AC/AE)
Conceptualization - AC)
(AC/RO)

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