Big IdeasReach touch and teach: Terry Borton
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Despite (or perhaps because of) its practical and pragmatic approach, Reach Touch and Teach made very little impact on the world of education when it was first published in 1970 and quickly sank into obscurity. The focus of the second part of this ‘Big Ideas’ essay is therefore not on how Borton has influenced nursing and nurse education in general, but rather on how his book has informed my own work.
I first stumbled upon his remarkable little book in the early 1990s when I was writing a new
Conclusion
Terry Borton drew on his experiences of teaching and running workshops during the 1960s to develop a process model of education based on three simple questions. Although it was never intended as a theory of learning, Borton's model anticipated and pre-dated the experiential learning cycle of Kolb and Fry (1975) by several years, with Kolb and Fry's elements of reflective observation, abstract conceptualisation and active experimentation closely mirroring Borton's What? So What? Now What?
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