Schon and your take

Hello Tom,
In reponse to your response to my blog: "Can you recall a puzzling or surprising event recently with the students you are teaching?  Describe it briefly to me and I`ll see if I can use it as a way to clarify what I think Schon is trying to say."
One recurring challenge that I am faced with in my teaching to adult ELLs (English Language Learners) is the continual efforts to draw out the students' previous learning strategies, language formation and cultural expectations. In the process of continuous needs assessments, this allows me to not only understand my students better but I am better able to understand their learning strategies.  In contrast to a class with students from generally the same demographics -Canada-, there may be multiple learning styles that influence learning but the education acquired could be somewhat similar. In a classroom setting where you have multiple cultural backgrounds, it is necessary to understand the cultural influences that could enhance or diminish the learning in class. For example, my current class consists of one Ukrainian male with a possible learning disorder who was a photographer, a refugee from Iraq with an accounting background, an architect from El Salvador, a young woman from Bangladesh with her Master's in Economics, a mother with five from Costa Rica currently pursuing a fast track highschool diploma,  a lovely but intense woman from Egypt with an undergraduate degree in Psycholoy, and finally a new student with outstanding skills in carpentry from Bulgaria. The goal behind this federally funded program is to help integrate into Canadian society while acquiring the English language.   Although the common goal is to help facilitate that transition in Canada and help with the acquisition of English,  the multiple obstacles to get there are paramount.  In essence, the struggle for me is to balance teaching with an apporach that most will accept and respoond to. What might Schon say to this?....
Thanks for your feedback, should you choose to respond.
Carolin