Sheila Harri-Augstein is Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Learning, Brunel University of West London. Laurie Thomas is the Founder Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Learning and Carl Rogers Memorial Professor, Clayton University, USA. Together the authors have pioneered the theory and practice of Self-Organised Learning. They have presented TV and radio programmes, and run seminars and workshops in Europe, the USA, Mexico, Australia, India and the UK. Their approach has successfully been introduced into major commercial, educational and government organisations. They are the authors of Self-Organised Learning (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985).

• General Introduction: Personal Myths About Learning. Part 1: Learning Prospective Commentary: Creating a Language for Discovering What Learning Might Become 1. The Learning Process: A Search for Meaning 2. Constructing Understanding: Meaning as Modelling. Retrospective Commentary: S-O-L as a Way of Increasing Your Learning Capacity by Reflectively Organising Your Own Learning Processes Part 2: The Learning Conversation Prospective Commentary: Task-Bound, Task-Focused and Learning Focused Activity – The Way to Self-Organised Learning 3. On Becoming Aware of Personal Processes of Learning 4. How to Conduct a Learning Conversation. Retrospective Commentary: How to Take Control of Learning and Enable Others to Internalise the Learning Conversation Part 3: Self-Organised Learning Environments Prospective Commentary: Creating the Conditions to Enable Self-Organised Learning 5. The Learning Practitioner: Organising a System of Learning Conversations 6. Conversational Evaluation and Purposive Change: The Enterprise as a Self-Organised Learning Environment. Retrospective Commentary: The Implications of Systems 7 for Industrial and Commercial Training and Education. A Functional Taxonomy of Reflective Tools Introduction: Increasing the Power of the Learning Conversation – a Resource for the Learner and the Learning Practitioner A. Tools for Increasing Awareness of Learning Processes: Representing Personal Meaning for Reflecting on Experience B. Tools for Increasing Awareness of Learning Processes: Reconstructing Experience by Talk-Back Through Records of Behaviour C. Experience and Behaviour Expanded into Purpose and Review: An Elaboration of the Functional Taxonomy D. Charting Progress as a Self-Organised Learner E. Tools from Education and Training. Conclusions: S-O-L and the Enhancement of the Quality of Learning . General Implications: Towards the Self-Organised Learning Society. Postscript: the Centre for the Study of Human Learning S-O-L Environment and Information Technology. Index

Sheila Harri-Augstein is Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Learning, Brunel University of West London. Laurie Thomas is the Founder Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Learning and Carl Rogers Memorial Professor, Clayton University, USA. Together the authors have pioneered the theory and practice of Self-Organised Learning. They have presented TV and radio programmes, and run seminars and workshops in Europe, the USA, Mexico, Australia, India and the UK. Their approach has successfully been introduced into major commercial, educational and government organisations. They are the authors of Self-Organised Learning (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985).

• General Introduction: Personal Myths About Learning. Part 1: Learning Prospective Commentary: Creating a Language for Discovering What Learning Might Become 1. The Learning Process: A Search for Meaning 2. Constructing Understanding: Meaning as Modelling. Retrospective Commentary: S-O-L as a Way of Increasing Your Learning Capacity by Reflectively Organising Your Own Learning Processes Part 2: The Learning Conversation Prospective Commentary: Task-Bound, Task-Focused and Learning Focused Activity – The Way to Self-Organised Learning 3. On Becoming Aware of Personal Processes of Learning 4. How to Conduct a Learning Conversation. Retrospective Commentary: How to Take Control of Learning and Enable Others to Internalise the Learning Conversation Part 3: Self-Organised Learning Environments Prospective Commentary: Creating the Conditions to Enable Self-Organised Learning 5. The Learning Practitioner: Organising a System of Learning Conversations 6. Conversational Evaluation and Purposive Change: The Enterprise as a Self-Organised Learning Environment. Retrospective Commentary: The Implications of Systems 7 for Industrial and Commercial Training and Education. A Functional Taxonomy of Reflective Tools Introduction: Increasing the Power of the Learning Conversation – a Resource for the Learner and the Learning Practitioner A. Tools for Increasing Awareness of Learning Processes: Representing Personal Meaning for Reflecting on Experience B. Tools for Increasing Awareness of Learning Processes: Reconstructing Experience by Talk-Back Through Records of Behaviour C. Experience and Behaviour Expanded into Purpose and Review: An Elaboration of the Functional Taxonomy D. Charting Progress as a Self-Organised Learner E. Tools from Education and Training. Conclusions: S-O-L and the Enhancement of the Quality of Learning . General Implications: Towards the Self-Organised Learning Society. Postscript: the Centre for the Study of Human Learning S-O-L Environment and Information Technology. Index

Sheila Harri-Augstein is Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Learning, Brunel University of West London. Laurie Thomas is the Founder Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Learning and Carl Rogers Memorial Professor, Clayton University, USA. Together the authors have pioneered the theory and practice of Self-Organised Learning. They have presented TV and radio programmes, and run seminars and workshops in Europe, the USA, Mexico, Australia, India and the UK. Their approach has successfully been introduced into major commercial, educational and government organisations. They are the authors of Self-Organised Learning (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985).

• General Introduction: Personal Myths About Learning. Part 1: Learning Prospective Commentary: Creating a Language for Discovering What Learning Might Become 1. The Learning Process: A Search for Meaning 2. Constructing Understanding: Meaning as Modelling. Retrospective Commentary: S-O-L as a Way of Increasing Your Learning Capacity by Reflectively Organising Your Own Learning Processes Part 2: The Learning Conversation Prospective Commentary: Task-Bound, Task-Focused and Learning Focused Activity – The Way to Self-Organised Learning 3. On Becoming Aware of Personal Processes of Learning 4. How to Conduct a Learning Conversation. Retrospective Commentary: How to Take Control of Learning and Enable Others to Internalise the Learning Conversation Part 3: Self-Organised Learning Environments Prospective Commentary: Creating the Conditions to Enable Self-Organised Learning 5. The Learning Practitioner: Organising a System of Learning Conversations 6. Conversational Evaluation and Purposive Change: The Enterprise as a Self-Organised Learning Environment. Retrospective Commentary: The Implications of Systems 7 for Industrial and Commercial Training and Education. A Functional Taxonomy of Reflective Tools Introduction: Increasing the Power of the Learning Conversation – a Resource for the Learner and the Learning Practitioner A. Tools for Increasing Awareness of Learning Processes: Representing Personal Meaning for Reflecting on Experience B. Tools for Increasing Awareness of Learning Processes: Reconstructing Experience by Talk-Back Through Records of Behaviour C. Experience and Behaviour Expanded into Purpose and Review: An Elaboration of the Functional Taxonomy D. Charting Progress as a Self-Organised Learner E. Tools from Education and Training. Conclusions: S-O-L and the Enhancement of the Quality of Learning . General Implications: Towards the Self-Organised Learning Society. Postscript: the Centre for the Study of Human Learning S-O-L Environment and Information Technology. Index