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Kirkpatrick, 1971, (presumably Donald Kirkpatrick, originator
of the Kirkpatrick Learning Evaluation Model) from 'A Practical
Guide for Supervisory Training and Development', Reading, MA:
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
A suggestion attributed by Bob Williams to Paul Denley, who "...
writes about his learning in terms of a movement from
Unconscious
Incompetence,
Conscious
Incompetence,
Unconscious Competence and Conscious Competence........." goes
on to say that "...Paul's reference to this model is: P. Dubin
(1962) from Human Relations in Administration, Englewood
Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall."
Bob Williams also includes a suggestion by Susan Gair: "... I have
been interested for a long time to know the source of this adult
learning model (unconscious incompetence etc). I have a
document which discusses it, and then cites Howell 1977, p3840..."
Development and conflict resolution expert Bill McLaughlin
suggests Bateman is the Conscious Competence model
originator. Any additional information about this would be
gratefully received. (See Tony Thacker's comments below)
David Hurst, Ontario-based speaker, writer and consultant on
management, has looked for origins of the conscious competence
model, and suggests that the first mention he could find was in
an interview with W Lewis Robinson in the Personnel Journal v
53, No. 7 July 1974 pages 538-539, in which Robinson cited the
four categories (UC/IC, C/IC, C/C and UC/C) in the context of
training, and pointed out that UC/C practitioners often weren't
effective as teachers. Hurst says the next mention was in an
article by Harvey Dodgson "Management Learning in Markstrat:
The ICL Experience", Journal of Business Research 15, 481-489
(1987), which used Kolb's learning styles and then showed the
four conscious competence categories in a cycle but gave no
references for it. Hurst corresponded with Dodgson but never
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