Situational Influences on Learning Styles

One of the major themes of management education is the development of theoretical models to aid the education and training of managers. Such theoretical formulations help educators to decide which teaching methods are appropriate in various situations, to conceptualise learning processes and to understand processes of growth and development of the individual manager. One such model which has received attention is Kolb's (1971) model of experiential learning, the core of which is a simple description of learning as a cyclic process: reflections on aspects of experience are used to make sense of that experience which in turn provides the basis for choice of new experience.