Reflection: a key personal agency for learning to be a professional? A presentation by Professor Ursula Lucas Bristol 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, 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 thinking is at the of higher education & being a professional
Skill? 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 Feelings Preconceptions Prior ‘everyday’ knowledge
An‘other’ framework? Two inventories Reflections on Learning (RoLI) Experience of learning accounting (ELAcc)
Developing a reflective capacity Ways of knowing Absolute Transitional Independent Contextual
Ways of knowing Cognitive Interpersonal Intrapersonal Self-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 Programme level “Developing as a professional” framework
Pedagogy as reflective enquiry “Being a professional” No end point Process with product continually deferred/remade
Pedagogy in context Educator level Realness Empathy Creating moments of surprise and possibility?
A never-ending story of… reflection? Learning to be a professional
and weblinks Developing a reflective capacity project Personal webpages Ursula Lucas Phaik Leng Tan address