ABSTRACT

The model that will be set out in this and the next chapter did not emerge fully fledged from the conceptual analysis of professional disciplines in the previous chapter. As described in the Preface, it developed gradually out of a combination of such reading and thinking, and work with practitioners in the teaching and training fields over the last ten years or so. That work has been documented in a number of occasional and previous publications (Squires, 1982, 1988, 1990) and culminated in the publication of a comprehensive training package for use in courses and workshops (Squires, 1994). That package has been used quite widely by myself and others with a wide variety of groups, both in the UK and abroad, and has proved a very useful means of testing and refining the model in practice.