One of the things that becomes noticeable as Donald Clark writes about the work of more and more education researchers is that the field becomes defined less by a few towering figures and much more by what might be thought of as a chorus of voices each contributing a little to a much wider picture. The ones with good pedigree or good public relations get a lot of the attention, but the real work is done in the spaces between them. That's where I would place Victoria Marsick as she draws on a lot of earlier work on informal and non-formal learning and "provided the theoretical basis for future takes on informal and incidental learning that led to Gery and Cross and the technology that enabled this to happen." And the thing to remember here is that they aren't 'her ideas' so much as they are community ideas to which she has contributed (and the same is true for my ideas and anyone else in the field you care to name).
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