Experiential Learning in Communities: Importance and Benefits

Running Head: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IN COMMUNITIES
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IN COMMUNITIES
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The communication skills play a dominant role in the process of sharing of information
amongst the different members of the society. The effectiveness of the dialogue process entails
the development of the shared feeling of understanding and respect towards the members of the
different groups in existence and this process entails the process of sharing of the information
and the shared values among the different member of the groups. The experiential learning
process can be facilitated further by developing the necessary skills about the cognitive
development of the child and the ability to transfer information across the generation through
the efficient utilization of the linguistic skills. The essay analyzes the necessity to incorporate
the experiential learning process amongst the different members of the community and enable
the members to perform to the best of their potential and abilities. The process of facilitating the
learning process among the different groups enables the transfer of knowledge and information
among themselves in a much faster and easier process.
The community engagement is the process which defines the ethical, shared as well as
the shared interactive relationship of learning which are done to foster the relationship among the
communities and the knowledge transfer process. The activities and projects, which include the
various tasks such as the service, based community work, the work based learning as well as the
fieldwork and the research considerations are all considered important aspects of engagement.
The community engagement is considered an important aspect of imparting learning and other
aspects of teaching activities and seamlessly transfers experiential learning amongst the
community members. The community engagement can be fostered amongst the community
members by increasing the cooperation and the interactive sessions amongst the members of the
community. The community can engage in beneficial dialogue with the members to facilitate the
process of transferring knowledge and experience to the future generations. The communities are

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not always based on generic entities and sometimes, there exists high level of overlapping in the
groups when the individual members of the group belong to different multiple groups under the
community’s banner. The intercultural communication is facilitated in the group communication
process and there exists many models and research work which explain the functioning of the
intercultural communication process. According to Hofstede, there exists two ways in which the
members in the groups can increase their intercultural skills so as to be able to effectively
communicate along with the students and the professionals in the workplace. Hofstede labels this
intercultural communication as the culture specific approach and the culture general approach.
According to Hofstede, the culture specific enables the students to learn about the specific and
particular culture of the people, which the students are able to learn and work with or
communicate with the different people in the country (Legare & Nielsen, 2015). The culture
general approach focuses on the learning as well as the cultural aspects in general instead of
focusing on the learning about the specific cultures in the groups. According to Judith Dwyer,
the people are described as those entities who have a developed culture general approach and
have four general characteristics. These involve having sound knowledge about the different
cultures as well as possessing awareness about the own cultural background. The group members
are able to stay alert to the differences in the communication amongst themselves as well as
others and these members program their communication styles in accordance to the group
dynamics (Mnih et al., 2015). The members of the groups are responsive as well as adaptive to
the differences in the behaviors of the other members. The members of the group are empathetic
as well as easily conform to the communication patterns of the other members of the
communities or groups.