EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Experiencing something directly with your senses. For example, participating in a cooking class with its smells, sights, tastes and temperatures as opposed to watching an instructional video.

Detailed explanation-2: -Direct experience or immediate experience generally denotes experience gained through immediate sense perception. Many philosophical systems hold that knowledge or skills gained through direct experience cannot be fully put into words.

Detailed explanation-3: -Active, direct experience can act as a catalyst that deepens our emotional engagement with others and thus our understanding of the wider world.

Detailed explanation-4: -Direct experience refers to built-in opportunities for active engagement in a learning environment which “decisively shape individual understandings” (Ewell, 1997, p. 7).