This weekend was the first set of lectures we had to launch our opening module on the course. The day was split into 2 sessions, the first which tackled the ideas of professionalism and knowledge and the second which looked deeper into reflective models and theories.
Immediately I can see a structural difference in the approach to assignments, and we have been given far less structure to navigate within our written essays. This could go either way, I am cautious and aware that I occasionally (not always badly) go down a rabbit hole of rambling on or repeating the same point throughout.
Session 1 - Professionalism
This session started heavy with the 'ologies' and pos
itionality taking a focus. Something that we focussed heavily on in the MA and surrounds ideas of knowledge production.
Epistemology = How will I know? Thinking process
Ontology = How so I live? Doing and how it happens in the world.
Methodology = How do we do it?
Axiology = the study of values and the value of research.
Excellent questions that came from this session were:
Why are certain types of knowledge marginalised or legitimised?
What counts as valid knowledge and who decides?
Reading suggestions were - Salma Patel on the 'ologies' and Crotty.
Session 2 - Reflection
Tasks within the session were hugely useful and opened up my eyes to new theorists and approaches to reflection, which was immensely useful. These included:
Dewey - has been referred to as the 'godfather of reflection' by our lecturer.
Moon - The idea of a formal and informal structure to reflection and that it is ultimately rooted in a purpose/outcome (much like Schon).
Brookfield - The idea of four lenses and seeing interpretations of 'data' through other people's lenses. Also suggests that looking at further power structures identifies a deeper understanding.
Driscoll - On first site looks relatively simplistic as a three strand model for reflection.
Some things to consider are:
- What are the barriers to reflective practice? further reading showed me a great article written by Karen Edwards in 2014.
- What other models/research is there around the reflective practitioner?
- How can you pinpoint positionality? What has led to this?
- The bigger picture eg, government agenda, history, power relationships.
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