Empowerment Through Experiential Learning: Explorations of Good Practice Book

	List of Contributors	9
	Foreword	11
	Introduction	15
Sect. 1	Theories in practice	29
Ch. 1	Absorbing experiential learning	31
Ch. 2	Learner experience: a rich resource for learning	37
Ch. 3	Experiential learning: the Confucian model	50
Ch. 4	An exploration of levels of awareness and change processes in group encounter	56
Ch. 5	The politics of facilitation: balancing facilitator authority and learner autonomy	66
Ch. 6	Silent learning: experience as a way of knowledge	76
Sect. 2	Assessment and accreditation	83
Ch. 7	Linking personal learning and public recognition	85
Ch. 8	APEL for access to science and technology	94
Ch. 9	Women's informal learning in a neighbourhood setting	100
Ch. 10	Constraints upon portfolio development in the accreditation of prior learning	109
Ch. 11	Making experience count: facilitating the APEL process	118
Sect. 3	Integrating experiential learning	125
Ch. 12	Empowerment through experiential learning	127
Ch. 13	Cooperative inquiry into organizational culture: the Wrekin District Council experience	136
Ch. 14	Police probationer training: resistance to writing as an aid to reflection in experiential learning	148
Sect. 4	Learning to learn	153
Ch. 15	Adventure-based experiential learning	155
Ch. 16	In the midst of experience: developing a model to aid learners and facilitators	163
Ch. 17	Reflection and empowerment in the professional development of adult educators	170
Ch. 18	Internal processors in experiential learning	178
Ch. 19	Creative capability and experiential learning	187
Ch. 20	Suggestopedia: a way of learning for the 21st century	197
Sect. 5	Principles into practice	209
Ch. 21	Learning contracts: how they can be used in work-based learning	211
Ch. 22	Learning experiences for professional reality and responsibility	222
Ch. 23	An experiential learning approach to developing clinical reasoning skills	233
Ch. 24	Task and reflection in learning to learn	239
Ch. 25	Encouraging experiential learning: lessons from the 16-18 curriculum enrichment programme	247
	Index	257