ABSTRACT
Kairos is the Greek word for the right time for action, the propitious moment when events cry out to be taken in hand. At a tutorial's point of kairos the Trainee has come to perceive with maximum clarity the essence of some shortcoming or difficulty, and feels most hungry for help with it. Both learner and teacher are aware that this is the pivotal point to which the previous discussion has inexorably been leading; the minds of both are sharply focused on the same key issue. The purpose of a tutorial is to reach a point of kairos. If successfully reached, will inevitably be followed by effective teaching and sound learning, because the perceptual and awareness-raising processes that will have generated it are the same processes that will not allow it to be wasted. This chapter explores the kairotic moment in a one-to-one tutorial: how to recognise it and how to set up conditions favourable to its emergence.
