1. 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, 2009 Email address and weblinks available on the last slide

2. Reflection A key personal agency for learning to be a professional?

3. A story of… continual reflective enquiry

4. Critical thinking is at the of higher education & being a professional

5. Skill? Aptitude? Personal attribute? Competence? Are we getting to the heart of the matter?

6. Questions raised in accounting Approaches to learning Affective? Motivation? Preconceptions? Methodology?

7. An‘other’ framework? Epistemological beliefs Feelings Preconceptions Prior ‘everyday’ knowledge

8. An‘other’ framework? Two inventories Reflections on Learning (RoLI) Experience of learning accounting (ELAcc)

9. Developing a reflective capacity Ways of knowing Absolute Transitional Independent Contextual

11. Ways of knowing Cognitive Interpersonal Intrapersonal Self-authorship

12. The metaphor? Voice Voice

13. Development? Denial Defensiveness Grief

14. Developing a reflective capacity Capability & disposition Resilience Playfulness Living with uncertainty

15. Development? Taking personal responsibility Dissonance/challenge New context Personal relevance Background of growing resilience

16. The role of placement? Cognitive Interpersonal Intrapersonal

17. Pedagogy? Constructive- developmental Learning as mutually- constructing meaning Situating learning in students’ own experience Validating students as knowers

18. Pedagogy in context Programme level “Developing as a professional” framework

19. Pedagogy as reflective enquiry “Being a professional” No end point Process with product continually deferred/remade

20. Pedagogy in context Educator level Realness Empathy Creating moments of surprise and possibility?

21. A never-ending story of… reflection? Learning to be a professional

22. Email and weblinks Developing 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-lucas Phaik Leng Tan http://bbs-staff.uwe.ac.uk/public/profile.aspx?username=p-tan Email address Ursula.Lucas@uwe.ac.uk