I wonder....way back when I did my teaching degree, we were taught that the best learning occurred when the student thought they had made a new discovery or learnt something new by themselves. In fact, the teacher had been in the background all the time, guiding and directing the student to take a certain path, blocking off certain ways, opening up other ways, so the student ended up about where the teacher had intended they be all along. If the teacher was successful, the student doesn't see what the teacher has been doing in the background - they think they've done it all on their own and have this "new discovery". This learning sticks, because the student thinks it's "theirs", they found it, they discovered it.
I see parallels with inquiry based or constructivist learning. Students think they are making their own discoveries, but in reality it is the teacher who is setting up the learning opportunities, guiding and directing.
Stuff in common? - I am inclined to think so.
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