ORGL 3000. The Three Phases of Reflection and the Self in Kolb Below, see one of Kolb's own diagrams describing how this process of reflective...

ORGL 3000. The Three Phases of Reflection and the Self in Kolb Below, see one of Kolb’s own diagrams describing how this process of reflective learning is developmental, how it actually develops the self, and gives you new ways of interacting with the world. To read a diagram like this, imagine yourself moving up the diagram from the bottom in the same direction as the arrow on the left side. Then read the different descriptions of the self on the right side. Our three Reflective Seminars, ORGL 3000, 30 50 and 4000, correspond to these three phases. In ORGL 3000, you focus on yourself as an “acquisition” phase learner. You analyze your own assumptions, beliefs and feelings as they relate to specific learning experiences. As you develop more skill, more ab ility to work with complex ideas, with other people, with a social and physical context, you enter the ORGL 3050 “specialization” phase. You are aware of disagreements and other ideas more in this phase, and your learning experiences will involve negotiati ng those differences as you interact with the world. The third phase, of “integration”, is the more mature phase in which you have learned more about how to interact with the world and you are able to transform, to adapt, to new situations and new schools of thought. In ORGL 4000 you will be writing about this level of self and reflection. In the Capstone course, ORGL 4690, you will be focusing on how your previous experiences and learning co nnect and integrate with your current degree program. Figure 6.3 from Kolb, David A. (1984). Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice -Hall. Photo of David A. Kolb from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_Kolb.png