Introduction to the Column: Reflective Practice

Relay Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 292-293
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Teacher Reflection ◽  
Narrative Approach

Welcome to the fourth reflective practice column. In this issue, we develop on the themes dealt with in the previous issues, in particular teacher reflection, mentoring and a personal narrative approach to exploring language advisor identity and practice. Over five papers, we see teachers and advisors reflecting on practice to develop their practice and, perhaps most importantly, sharing this reflection with others.

scholarly journals Teaching ‘Networking with Others’: A Reflective Account

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-81
Author(s):  
Angela Turner-Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Academic Needs ◽  
Teaching Session ◽  
Health Care Students ◽  
The World ◽  
Collaborative Working ◽  
The Uk

Reflective practice is about seeing yourself and your life differently. It is a method of self-appraisal that, when used in academia, has the potential to provide insights that are not always immediately apparent to the practitioner. The author of this paper shares a piece of structured reflection based on Gibbs’s (1988) framework. This personal narrative relates to a teaching session entitled, ‘Networking with Others’ that was delivered to UK and International postgraduate health care students. It is this activity that forms the basis of this reflective work. A number of educational issues are considered as the reflection unfolds, many relating to methods and modes of delivery. The final part of this paper reports on an action plan developed to improve the session. This includes the adoption of more collaborative working in order to support the student’s professional as well as academic needs. It is anticipated that this new workshop style session will improve the learning experience, and provide students with a firm base from which to grow their networking skills for the future. In addition, the plan may offer suggestions for anyone running similar sessions throughout the UK and the world.

Contemporary Artists Respond to the Baby Dolls

Walking Raddy ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 285-313
Keyword(s):  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Cultural Participation ◽  
Mardi Gras ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Baby Doll ◽  
Contemporary Artists

This chapter discusses the process of negotiation of cross cultural participation and permission of playing mas within black cultural traditions. Using a personal narrative approach the author reflects on her experiences of playing Mas in Trinidad and Tobago Carnival and her desires to play Mas as a Baby Doll in New Orleans Mardi Gras. The author contends her participation cannot be purchased and seeks new ways to adopt a deeper understanding of the history tradition of the Baby Dolls and honor them in a documentary.

Integrated reporting as a test of worth

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1406-1434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Maree Vesty ◽  
Chao Ren ◽  
Sophia Ji
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Dual Purpose ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Actor ◽  
Competing Priorities ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Depth Interviews

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide practical insights into a senior manager’s engagement with integrated reporting (IR). This paper theorises IR as an accounting compromise and test of worth in an Australian IR pilot organisation.Design/methodology/approachIn-depth interviews with the chairman of the IR pilot organisation are analysed in the context of Boltanski and Thévenot’s (1991, 2006) economies of worth (EW). A personal narrative approach was used to privilege the voice of an individual actor at the heart of decision making.FindingsIn contributing to van Bommel’s (2014) use of EW to examine IR as an accounting compromise, the authors find that ambiguity in IR does not mean that reporting is getting harder to operationalise. Instead, IR is getting harder to justify. The relativism issues that IR has revealed suggest that if all views are met, any significant contributions would not stand out. Interviews reveal that the challenge for IR is to provide the means to report on the organisation’s broader societal impacts, which go beyond measures of IR value creation.Practical implicationsThis paper contributes to the accounting academy with practical insights on a dual-purpose organisation’s experiences with IR. The authors demonstrate how a chairman of the board uses accounting to navigate competing priorities and justify management decisions.Originality/valueThis study offers unique insights from the chairman of an IR pilot organisation. A personal narrative approach contributes to the limited empirical literature in accounting using EW as a micro-level analytic.

scholarly journals Architecture, City and Home: A Personal Narrative of a Globetrotter

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karine Dupre
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Life Journey

Based on a narrative approach, this contribution analyses a personal life journey to discuss the relationships between architecture, city and home.

scholarly journals The Significance of Promoting Teacher Reflection: A Review Article

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-143
Author(s):  
Mahnaz Moayeri ◽  
Ramin Rahimiy
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Teacher Reflection ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Significant Issue ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Successful Teaching

The present review article is intended to bring the significant issue of teachers’ reflective practice into the limelight by overviewing how this concept evolved through time and what it promises for successful teaching. The concept of teacher reflection, defined as teachers’ beliefs about their teaching practice, has been subjected to a number of criticisms regarding its instrumental nature, disregard of social justice, and a vague reinforcement of the existing ideologies instead of challenging beliefs. These critiques have been discussed in this article, and possible ways to overcome the challenges are highlighted. Furthermore, pieces of evidence from a number of previous research studies are reviewed, which highlight how practicing reflection enables teachers to become aware of both their individual development and the different dimensions of the education program. It is further discussed that teacher reflection can benefit from different research perspective attempting to solve the ambiguities blurring its significance.

Investigating Life-Stories: Personal Narratives in Pastoral Psychology

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Ruard Ganzevoort
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Pastoral Psychology ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Function ◽  
Pastoral Practice ◽  
Insight Into

The subject of this article is the meaning of the personal narrative in pastoral practice and research. A hermeneutical, narrative approach is used to explore the nature and function of the personal narrative, and gives insight into the dynamics of pastoral counseling. Narrative approaches are also both possible and valuable for research and counseling. This reflects the new interest in hermeneutics found in Dutch pastoral psychological literature. Implications for research in pastoral psychology are discussed and possibilities for practice are described. The article concludes with a discussion of the hermeneutical approach.

A Coach Developers’ Narrative on Scaffolding a Learner-Centred Coaching Course in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa R. Galatti ◽  
Yura Yuka Sato dos Santos ◽  
Paula Korsakas
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Coaching Skills ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
The University

Sport coaching in Brazil is a regulated profession that requires higher education qualifications. A degree in physical education (PE) is mandatory since 1998 for those who aspire to work as coaches in the country, which has led universities and professors to play a key role in developing coaches through formal education. Through a personal narrative approach, we—a professor and a PhD candidate—wrote this paper with the purpose of sharing our pathways and reflections in implementing a learner-centred teaching (LCT) approach in an undergraduate coaching course in Brazil, both acting as coach developers (CDs). From a personal and professional growth perspective, as CDs, we acknowledge the relevance of offering such practical experiences along with reflection and peer sharing as crucial steps for practitioners to improve CD expertise in the higher education setting. By reflecting on the potential of a LCT approach in higher education, we demonstrate how LCT strategies can enhance opportunities for student-coaches to gain exposure to meaningful practical coaching situations as a way to better develop their coaching skills within the university environment.

The Power of Reflective Practice in Second-Degree Nursing Education

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keynan Hobbs
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Family Organization ◽  
Managing Change ◽  
Practice Group ◽  
Second Degree

This essay is a personal narrative of engagement with reflective practice as a seconddegree nursing student. Particular concepts discussed, through an exemplar from a student-led reflective practice group, include negotiations between human beings in nurse-patient/family/organization/society relationships and their inherent complexity, managing change, and the importance of finding continuity in both the physical and personal work of nursing. Reflective practice is also placed in context with other work that intends to make visible the tacit knowledge of nursing.

Personal Narrative of Travels

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander von Humboldt ◽  
Aime Bonpland ◽  
Helen Maria Williams
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narrative
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