• Think of a small incident that happened in a class
• Describe the puzzlement phase
• What did your reflection suggest?
• What experiment did you try?

Work with someone else

• Hand your description to the other person
• Other person tries to find a theory (of any kind) that fits or might describe the situation
• Swap over

Theories explored

• Kolb
• Transactional analysis (feelings)
• Behaviorist approach (reflection or the experiment or assessing the results of the experiment)
• Andragogy (Knowles) (planning, experiement, reflection)
• Goffman (‘presentation of self’) (feelings)
• Gestalt (experiment)
• Brookfield (‘imposter’) (feelings)
• Gramsci (‘reflection)
• Humanist (reflection)
• Cognitivist (later stages after early bits)
• Bloom (need to be pitched at right level of taxonomy)
• Dewey (
• Dave’s taxonomy (about work based learning)
• Carl Rodgers (adultness, Humanism)