Where does it come from

The general concept of learning through experience is old. Around 350 a. C, Aristotle wrote in the Nicomachean Ethics “for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” But as an articulated educational approach, experiential learning is of a much more recent vintage. Beginning in the 1970s, David A. Kolb helped develop modern experiential learning theory, drawing largely on the work of John Dewey, Kurt Lewin, and Jean Piaget.