Script, Psychological Life Plans, and the Learning Cycle

Abstract

An experiential learning model, the learning cycle (the basic human adaptive process of reflecting on experience then generating and testing hypotheses), provides a model for understanding both script formation in childhood and the updating and changing of script throughout life from a constructivist/cocreative perspective. Changes in the theory of script are reviewed together with recent studies on children's natural learning through experience, language acquisition, meaning making, and experimentation. Script development is considered as a normal, resourceful process of human psychological growth in which story making plays an important role.

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Trudi Newton

Trudi Newton is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst in the educational field. She has written a number of articles and co-authored several books on learning for adult educators and for schools. Co-Director of a training institute in Cambridge, England, Trudi also directs transactional analysis training programs for educators in London and St. Petersburg, Russia. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Transactional Analysis Journal. Trudi can be contacted at Langley Cottage, Chelmondiston, Ipswich IP9 1HS, United Kingdom, or by e-mail at [email protected].