Direct, Purposeful Experiences and Beyond

Good or bad experiences is still an experience. There is a lesson learned from it that could heigthen our sensitivity to the world.

There are to kinds of experience, the direct and indirect experiences. Direct experience is our fist hand experience that make up the foundation of our learning in contrast to indirect experience this is not a first hand experience but rather vicarious experience. 

Direct experience is said to be purposeful because they are internalized in the senses and it involves the asking of questions that have significance in the life of the person undergoing the experience and this experiences have undergone in relation to a learning purposes.

"Direct purposeful experiences and beyond" implies that these experiences must be brought to the higher plane and the higher plane is referred here is the level of abstraction and generalization.

In teaching and learning process, it implies that we must give our students opportunities to learn by doing, make use of real thing as an instructional materials as much as possible, we must help our students develop their five senses to the full to heigthen their sensitivity to the world, guide our student draw meaning from the first hand experiences and elevate their level of thinking and lastly we must not be tempted to get stuck to the concrete and fail to bring up our students to the higher level of thinking process.