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Table 2 Framework Stages Mezirow & Kolb

From: Ethical learning on international medical electives: a case-based analysis of medical student learning experiences

Stage

Mezirow’s Framework Stage

Kolb’s Experiential Learning Pathway Phase

Learning Phase

1

Disorienting Dilemma

Concrete, Reflective

Phase 1: Reflective

2

Self-Examination (Often with feeling of guilt or shame)

3

Critical Assessment of epistemic, sociocultural or psychic assumptions

Abstract, Reflective

4

Recognition of connection between one’s discontent and the process of transformation

5

Explaining option for new behavior

6

Planning a course of action

Abstract, Active

Phase 2: Active

7

Knowledge to implement plans

8

Experimenting with new roles

Concrete, Active

9

Building of confidence with new roles

10

Reintegration into one’s life on the basis of conditions dictated by ones new life