Heron (1999) describes learning as having four distinct yet interdependent forms which inform, support, and enhance one another. The first form is practical learning, which entails learning how to do something and is manifested in the competent practice of that skill. Heron describes the first level as the physical level of learning, where one has to show the willingness to learn. The second form involves conceptual learning, which entails learning about something (for example, someone saying “I want to learn about leadership”). This is the intellectual, verbal, and conceptual level of learning, pronounced in statements and propositions. Conceptual learning emphasises the kinds of things one is able to do with the information one has acquired.
