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Models of the Learner

Topics, including the topics of keynote addresses to learned societies, have a hermeneutic history. The hermeneutic history of a topic, we are cautioned, must be taken into account if we are fully to interpret its meaning. The topic of my paper, Models of the Learner, is no exception. It has such a history and has a proximal origin in a set of exchanges-first as a conversation and then as the topic of a more formal learned discussion. Let me set forth the beginning narrative of that hermeneutic circle (or spiral) and continue it in the discussion that follows. The setting was an international conference in