The Laws of Learning Dynamics: Foundational Principles of Productive Interaction and Reference Vocabulary

This document presents Version 1.0 of Learning Dynamics, a proposed explanatory and engineering framework for Productive Interaction between participants and systems. It formulates seven foundational laws and two corollaries describing how Productive Interaction becomes structurally possible, is initiated, remains enterable across successive Interaction Moments, can restore the conditions of its own continuation, can be transformed when Structural Incompatibility arises, and can be maintained through compensation even when that incompatibility remains unresolved. Learning Dynamics locates the possibility of Productive Interaction in Interaction Structure: the interaction-specific relationship through which Interaction Demands and available Interaction Capacity are brought into a functioning relation. The framework distinguishes the Systemic Structure of local Demand–Capacity relations from the Phasal Structure through which interaction develops across Enterability, Continuity, Productivity, and Sustainability. It further introduces Restorative and Deteriorating Trajectories, Structural Transformation, Compensatory Continuation, the Effort Paradox, and Structural Entrapment to describe how interaction can change the conditions of what becomes possible next. The document includes a Reference Vocabulary defining the core constructs of the framework. The laws are proposed theoretical principles of a developing research programme rather than established natural laws. They remain subject to operationalisation, comparison with adjacent theories, empirical validation, and revision. This publication establishes a citable and timestamped statement of the current theoretical architecture of Learning Dynamics and invites scholarly examination and empirical testing.