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eading into action that has been instrumental in moving the thesis forward. In keeping with theunderlying theme of the thesis and in homage to the 'i' in itunes which is an underlying metaphorfor the study, I have chosen to use the italicised 'i' to represent I in the diagram. I as in myself.This is supposed to denote that I am the main agent in the framework, though that is not to saythat others would be the 'i' in their own auto/pedagogic activity. It is the 'i' that is pivotal in thediagram. As can be seen, the outcome of reflection on the literature was the emergence of thetheoretical framework, and now I am unable to read anything from either of these domainswithout classifying it against one or more of the learning factors. As explored towards the endof chapter 2, these 'N's are code for the four factors of the framework that seem to underpinauto/pedagogic activity: N 1 for need; N 2 for knowledge; N 3 for network and N 4 for new. As canbe seen it is in the combination of these that the framework starts to emerge.In order to demonstrate the provenance of the phenomenon, it seems helpful to present thehistory of its evolution and etymology. Ultimately, the concept is traceable back to laterinterpreters of the phenomenological tradition (see Russell, 2007; Silverman, 2002) and thus hasits origins in approaches to research and truth deriving from that philosophical school.In section 2.5, I described auto/pedagogy as a phenomenon in its own right. At an earlier stageof this process I wondered if the original contribution to knowledge might be the 'discovery' anddefinition of this new approach to learning. That might have led to the setting of an overarchingframe for the study. This is because my hypothesis is that my own auto/pedagogic activity(mapped against that framework) is potentially illuminative for others attempting to make senseof the ‘space’ between their own personal or professional contexts and the epistemological toolsthey might employ for self-improvement. I see now that it is perhaps more important to use a130Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)