Provenance

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Provenance or synchronicity: Sense-Think-Act

This lists prior uses of the STA format (prior to first use by me in late Seventies) or uses that have occured since (AI/robotics?) with links if possible.

1. Rudolf Steiner schools are said to use the STA scenario. "Each topic, each day, they read/hear info, then critique it, then create something relating to it" From: Miranda Mowbray. I couldn't find a link that unpacks this aspect of Steiner education.
2. Experiential Learning uses the model: Knowledge, Activity (enacting that knowledge in some way), Critical reflection on what has been learnt. This model amalgamates the sensing and muscle action scenario.
3. Experiental Marketing uses an STA approach. See: http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/publications/books/reviews/experiential_marketing.htm A review of Bernd H. Schmitt's Experiential Marketing: How to Get Customers to Sense, Feel, Think, Act, and Relate to Your Company and Brands
4. "In AI/robotics they're into act-sense-think." Miranda Mowbray in an email to Gordon Joly. http://www.thetech.org/robotics/activities/index.html Many AI papers on the web refer to the sense/think/act loop as a fundemental consideration.
5. Pre Enlightenment lower class learning and knowledges were oral and transmitted through demonstration rather than silent reading. Learning by doing. Learning directly through all senses. See Barabara Stafford's work.
6. OODA This diagram was developed by a USAF fighter pilot. Later through lectures and workshops it was developed for businesses. As you can see below the mind function focuses on orientation and decision. The diagram is from copied from wiki commons

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:OODA.gif

Further explication of the provenance of OODA

can be found on

http://www.mindsim.com/MindSim/Corporate/OODA.html

7. STA should have some provenance in the fields of psychology and psychiatry both being studies of mentality. Perhaps we could look to people who made an effort to take a less professional stance and who adopted more accessible and democratic methods.

Dorothy Rowe's endorsement by the Anarchist Bookfair 2005 make me offer her as a possible psychologist. Plenty of articles to read on her website: http://www.dorothyrowe.com.au/setup.htm

For Psychiatrists I would go to Karen Horney's book 'Self Analysis', and the life and work of Wilhelm Reich who set up clinics in working-class areas. Both are pretty well covered on wikipedia. "Karen Horney created the concept of basic anxiety, a child's insecurity and doubt when a parent is indifferent, unloving, or disparaging". She also had the nerve to challenge Freudian misogyny. (there is no wikipedia page yet on Dorothy Rowe).