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Experiential learning

Here are entered works on knowledge acquired from personal experience rather than from formal academic study.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Experience
• Learning

• Active learning

• Experiential learning -- United States
• Service learning
• Traditional ecological knowledge

• Experience-based learning
• Learning, Experiential

• Homes of the Freed (New York: New Republic, 1926), by Rossa B. Cooley, contrib. by J. H. Dillard, illust. by Julius J. Lankes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Combining Service and Learning in Higher Education: Evaluation of the Learn and Serve America Higher Education Program, by Maryann Jacobi Gray, Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje, Ronald D. Fricker, Sandy A. Geschwind, Charles A. Goldman, Tessa Kaganoff, Abby E. Robyn, Melora Sundt, Lori Vogelgesang, and Stephen P. Klein (PDF files at rand.org)

• Because This Land is Who We Are: Indigenous Practices of Environmental Repossession (New York et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2024), ed. by Chantelle Richmond, Brad Coombes, and Renee Pualani Louis
  • HTML and PDF with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections
  • PDF and EPub with commentary at OAPEN

• Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Human Ecology in the Arctic (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2009), by Karim-Aly S. Kassam (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production (Cambridge, MA and London; et al: MIT Press, 2018), by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Active Statistics (c2024), by Andrew Gelman and Aki Vehtari (PDF with commentary at github.io)

• Science for All Children: A Guide to Improving Elementary Science Education in Your School District (1997), by National Science Resources Center (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Science for All Children: A Guide to Improving Elementary Science Education in Your School District (1997), by National Science Resources Center (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Student Teaching Today: A Survey Report of Selected Aspects of Student Teaching (AACTE Study Series #5; Washington: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 1960), by Asahel D. Woodruff (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sensational Subjects: The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World (London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2015), by John Jervis (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections)
• Creative Experience (originally published 1924), by Mary Parker Follett (page images at Toronto)
• Essays in Radical Empiricism, by William James (multiple formats at archive.org)

• No Sense of Obligation: Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe (c2001), by Matt Young (PDF at mines.edu)
• The Scepticism of British Empiricism (handwritten University of Michigan masters' thesis; 1889), by Elisha M. Hartman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in Empirical Philosophy, by John Anderson (text and page images of transcription at Sydney)

• Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), ed. by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold John Cook (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), ed. by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold John Cook (page images at HathiTrust)

• Philosophy of Science and Education: Chinese and European Views (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1995), ed. by Shen Qingsong, Tran Van Doan, and Fritz Wallner (multiple formats at Google)
• Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2013), by Timothy Morton (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• A Defence of Idealism: Some Questions and Conclusions (London: Macmillan and Co., 1917), by May Sinclair (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays in Experimental Logic (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1916), by John Dewey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Speculations (2010-) (full serial archives)

• Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Gregory Crane (HTML at UC Press)

• The Thirteen Pragmatisms and Other Essays (originally published 1963; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Pragmatism and the Crisis of Democracy (Public policy pamphlet #12; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934), by Charles W. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Metaphysics of Pragmatism (Chicago and London: Open Court Pub. Co., 1927), by Sidney Hook, contrib. by John Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pragmatism and Theory in English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #39; London: Stevens and Sons, 1987), by P. S. Atiyah (PDF in the UK)
• Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1923), by Charles S. Peirce, ed. by Morris R. Cohen, contrib. by John Dewey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Pragmatism, by D. L. Murray, contrib. by F. C. S. Schiller (Gutenberg text)
• Pragmatism: A New Name For Some Old Ways of Thinking, by William James (Gutenberg text)
• Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1917), by John Dewey, Addison Webster Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George Herbert Mead, Boyd Henry Bode, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts, and Horace Meyer Kallen (Gutenberg text)
• Die Philosophie des Als Ob: System der Theoretischen, Praktischen und Religiösen Fiktionen der Menschheit auf Grund eines Idealistischen Positivismus, Mit Einem Anhang Über Kant und Nietzsche (7th and 8th edition, in German; Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1922), by Hans Vaihinger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dogmatism and Evolution: Studies in Modern Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Theodore De Laguna and Grace Andrus De Laguna (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays in Radical Empiricism, by William James (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Meaning of Truth, by William James (Gutenberg text)
• The Philosophy of William James, Drawn From His Own Works (New York: Modern Library, c1925), by William James, ed. by Horace Meyer Kallen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vital Lies: Studies of Some Varieties of Recent Obscurantism (2 volumes; London: J. Lane; et al., 1912), by Vernon Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Last Stand of Dialectic Materialism: A Study of Sidney Hook's Marxism (New York: Polemic Publishers, 1934), by Max Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Art in History, History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1991), ed. by David Freedberg and Jan De Vries (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• American Impressionist and Realist Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz, Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19 April Through 3 June 1973 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1973), by Dianne H. Pilgrim, contrib. by John K. Howat (multiple formats with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Geoffrey Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• For Love or For Money: Balzac's Rhetorical Realism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Armine Kotin Mortimer (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dickens's Hyperrealism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by John Robert Reed (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Limits of Realism: Chinese Fiction in the Revolutionary Period (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Marston Anderson (HTML at UC Press)
• The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope (originally published 1980; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Walter M. Kendrick (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A Superficial Reading of Henry James: Preoccupations with the Material World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Thomas J. Otten (PDF at Ohio State)
• On Howells: The Best From American Literature (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by Edwin Harrison Cady and Louis J. Budd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Primitive Minds: Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Anna Neill (PDF at Ohio State)
• Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Molly Youngkin (PDF at Ohio State)
• After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Allen F. Stein (PDF at Ohio State)
• Literature and Reality (New York: International Publishers, c1950), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.