So in my last post i started thinking about thinking and action. Now, it is pretty clear to me that you can't deliberately perform an action without thinking it first. There is something here about reflection in use i think . that on-your-feet learning that happens as we navigate and problem solve our way through life.
Wals claims that facilitated social learning can bring about knowledge, values and action competence. (p19)
Action competence. What a great concept. Maybe that is the bridge i needed between reflection/learning and action. You don't necessarily have to act, but you have the readiness to act. And this is something that i noted in my research respondents - they all seem at different points in a personal trajectory of readinesses, which i can now call 'action competence'
He also claims that learning goals are at least in part internally determined by the community of learners itself, and that is important here when we think about an alumni group, as usually everything is determined by the mother programme.