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

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Transitional

Independent

Contextual

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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

Ursula.Lucas@uwe.ac.uk