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Reflection: a key personal agency for learning to be a professional?
A presentation by
Professor Ursula LucasBristol Business School
University of the West of England, Bristol
to the
“Learning to be a Professional through a Life-wide Curriculum” Conference
University of Surrey, Guildford, 31st March and 1st April, 2009
Email address and weblinks available on the last slide
Reflection
A key personal agency for
learning to be a professional?
A story of…
continual reflective enquiry
Critical thinkingis at the
of higher education&
being a professional
Critical thinkingSkill?
Aptitude?
Personal attribute?
Competence?Are we getting to the heart
of the matter?
Questions raised in accounting
Approaches to
learning
Affective?Motivation?
Preconceptions?
Methodology?
An‘other’ framework?
Epistemological beliefs
FeelingsPreconceptions
Prior ‘everyday’ knowledge
An‘other’ framework?
Two inventories
Reflections on Learning (RoLI)
Experience of learning
accounting (ELAcc)
Developing a reflective capacity
Ways of knowin
g
Absolute
Transitional
Independent
Contextual
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
%
Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Year 5
Absolute
Transitional
Independent
Contextual
Developing a reflective capacity
Ways of
knowing
Cognitive
Interpersonal
IntrapersonalSelf-authorship
The metaphor?
Voice
Voice
Development?
Denial
Defensiveness
Grief
Developing a reflective capacity
Capability
&
disposition
Resilience
Playfulness
Living with uncertainty
Development?
Taking personal responsibility
Dissonance/challenge
New context
Personal relevance
Background of growing resilience
The role of placement?
Cognitive
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Pedagogy?Constructive-developmental
Learning as
mutually-constructing meaning
Situating learning in students’ own
experience
Validating students as
knowers
Pedagogy in context
Programmelevel
“Developing as a professional”
framework
Pedagogy as reflective enquiry
“Being a professional
”
No end point
Process with product
continually deferred/remad
e
Pedagogy in context
Educator level
Realness
Empathy
Creating moments of surprise and possibility?
A never-ending story of…
reflection?
Learning to be a professional
Email and weblinksDeveloping a reflective capacity project
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/bbs/research/drc/index.shtml
Personal webpages
Ursula Lucas http://bbs-staff.uwe.ac.uk/public/profile.aspx?username=u-lucasPhaik Leng Tan http://bbs-staff.uwe.ac.uk/public/profile.aspx?username=p-tan
Email address