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“As we practise, we observe what we do and reflect on it. We make sense of what we aredoing through researching it. We gather data and generate evidence to support our claimsthat we know what we are doing and why we are doing it (our theories of practice), and wetest these knowledge claims for their validity through the critical feedback of others.”(Whitehead and McNiff, 2006 ibid)There is a direct correspondence with Gladwell's description of learning set out in section 3.1.4.'We create a theory' (Gladwell, 2006 p. 9). My theory is that there is a phenomenon which Ichoose to call auto/pedagogy which is evinced in the reflexive narratives of my own case historyor auto/biographic study.The five illustrative moments of this study are the stories of my unknowing practise ofauto/pedagogic activity. Reflexively analysing them is an attempt to make meaning from themin the context of the emerging framework for auto/pedagogy.To explore the framework further, a research method was necessary which would enable me toanalyse critically the core aspects, which I am now choosing to call 'learning factors'. Theauto/biographic approach enables me to reflect on the illustrative moments as occasions whenthere was an overlap between these represented here by an adjusted Venn Diagram:Figure 17: Ns as a VennI would argue now that an auto/pedagogic 'moment' is dependent on all four factors beingpresent at once. They are inter-related and co-dependent. That is not to say that learning, which178Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)