Page 41 - Introduction & Preamble

The Problem

The Kolb model, as depicted in diagram 4 (concrete

experiences; observation and reflection; formulation of
abstract concepts; and testing implications) when applied to

business case study development, helps the lecturer, to

broadly focus his/her attention on each stage of the model

and design appropriate questions that ensure that these
encourage student reflection, conceptualisation and ways of

testing ideas.

Subsumed below this constructivist, experiential learning

aspect is the more structured constructs of the problem, the
process, the phase and the syllabus. Here the problem can

be viewed as a holistic matrix from which a solution will be

nurtured and developed. The corollary would be to view the

problem as the grit embedded in the oyster’s matrix from
which a pearl of a solution will be nurtured and developed.

The quality of this pearl will depend on the environmental

factors (internal and external) that act upon it.