•DIRECT, PURPOSEFUL

EXPERIENCES AND
BEYOND
 “From the rich experiences that our senses
bring, we construct the ideas, the concepts, the
generalization that give meaning and order to
our lives.” – Edgar Dale
Learning ( behavioral change ) is a consequence of experience.
People become responsible when they have really assumed
responsibility, they become independent when they have
experienced independent behavior, they become able when they
have experienced success, they begin feel important when they are
important to somebody, they feel liked when someone likes them.
 What are referred to as direct, purposeful experiences?

They are our concrete and firsthand experiences that make up the
foundation of our learning. These direct activities may be preparing
meals, making a piece of furniture, doing powerpoint presentation,
performing laboratory experiment, delivering a speech, or taking a trip.
In contrast, indirect experiences are experiences of other people
that we observe, read or hear about. They are not firsthand but rather
vicarious experiences.
Why are these direct experience
described to be purposeful?
 What is purposeful?
PURPOSE PURPOSEFUL - MENS HAVING A
CLEAR AIM OR PURPOSE

PUPOSEFUL AIM

RESOLVE
 Here are the following reasons why direct
experience is said to be purposeful
• They are also described as
• Because the experience are not purposeful these experience are
purely mechanical. They are not undergone in relation to a
the matter of going through the purpose i.e. learning.
motion . These are not “mere
sensory excitation. They the
• Why do we want to have direct
experience that are internalized in experience in conducting
the sense that these experience experiments in the laboratory?
involved the asking of questions
that have significance of person
undergoing the direct experience.
 Where should these direct, purposeful
experiences lead as to?
• We must be brought to a higher plane.
The higher plane referred to here is the level of generalization and
abstraction
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If direct, purposeful experience or first hand sensory experience
make us learn concepts and skills effectively ? What does this
implies to the teaching learning process

• First, let us give our students opportunities to learn by doing

. Let us immerse our students in the World of experience.
Second, let us make use of real things as instructional
materials for as long as we can. Third, let us help the
students to develop the five senses to the full to heighten
their sensitivity to the world. Fourth, let us guide our
students so that they can draw meaning from their level of
thinking.
• That’s why we peak of “hands on, minds on and hearts on approach. Out of
direct experience , thoughts or meaning following reflection must flow or run
the risk of a lesson after another activity enjoyed by the learners who cannot
make connection with the activities themselves.
• consisting of activity after The grade 1 pupil’s zoo experience of the elephant
and giraffe as given in the activity phase of lesson enables him to understand
clearly and visualized correctly an elephant and a giraffe upon reading or
hearing the words “elephant and giraffe”
• The cone of experience implies that we move from concrete to the abstract
(and from the abstract to concrete as well)
• Direct experience serve as the foundation of concept formation generalization
and abstraction.– JOHN DEWEY (1916)