Working and Learning — Identifying Your Preferred Ways of Doing Things

It was John Dewey who clearly argued that we should integrate learning with work and work with learning. His view was that experience could be a great teacher, providing we had opportunities to learn from action. He emphasised that there was ‘An intimate and necessary relation between the processes of actual experience and education’. However, he also emphasised ‘it is not enough to insist upon the necessity of experience, nor even of activity in experience. Everything depends upon the quality of experience which is had.’