Powerful Learning Experiences within Coherent Learner Groups

Abstract

An understanding of powerful learning experiences-those that stand out in memory because of their high quality, impact on one's thoughts and actions

Performance Improvement Assuming Complexity

“…At the same time, evidence is accumulating that significant learning and performance display characteristics of complexity. For example, beyond sources cited previously and the examples given by other authors in this issue, clear correspondence can be seen between descriptions of the properties of complex systems and those of phenomena such as peak performance (Privette & Bundrick, 1997), deep play (Ackerman, 1999), flow (Czikszentmihalyi, 1993), liminal states (Rowland & Wilson, 1994), sweet spots in athletic performance (Jerome, 1980), and powerful learning experiences (Perry, 2002;Rowland, Lederhouse, & Satterfield, 2004;Visser & Visser, 2000). The HPT literature itself has increasingly adopted language that describes learning and performance as complex.…”

Powerful learning at SEA

“…Graduate students and I (first author) have been studying powerful learning experiences for the past seventeen years, attempting to understand their nature and, eventually, to offer guidance for their creation (Bolger, Codner, Reuning-Hummel, & Rowland, 2011;Raabe & Rowland, 2013;Reuning-Hummel, Meyer, & Rowland, 2016;Rivera & Rowland, 2008;Rowland & DiVasto, 2001;Rowland, Hetherington, & Raasch, 2002;Rowland, Lederhouse, & Satterfield, 2004). We have studied this phenomenon with adults in various contexts and, as general conclusions proved elusive, searched for fundamental principles in groups and circumstances that were increasingly similar.…”