ABSTRACT
"Radical" is probably the least well understood of the various styles of teaching and learning because it is based on different beliefs about education and the way people relate. Progressive ideas evolved in the early twentieth century to take account of adult learners' life experience and commitment, using real-life situations as the basis for learning. A little later, humanistic learning theorist promoted student-centred learning—the development and nurture of each person's self-actualisation through education. The power of the learning in that group was in the combination of the security of the familiar structure and the challenge of using transactional analysis (TA) ideas at the same time as hearing about them—doing TA as well as knowing it. Learning means change, and that change may be expressed in knowledge, skill, or understanding, sometimes in all three. School experiences of feeling inadequate or inferior get projected onto the teacher-figure who similarly projects low expectations onto the learners.
