I firmly believe that instructors who are not competent aerobatic pilots should not be out spinning with students because they will not have a true understanding of spin dynamics, effective of controls in fully developed spins, and may not be able to recover if the aircraft does something dangerous.
Actually that's something I hadn't even considered. Excellent point!
but as far as most PPLs are concerned it IS FULL power on recovery.
Foxmoth I wasn't suggesting otherwise, just that aggressive control inputs aren't required to unstall an aircraft. Adding full power is where the extra control forces come from. If a PPL doesn't understand that then they will quite likely over-control when attempting unusual attitude recoveries.