For this activity we split in groups of 4 people and each of us read and summed up one article.
The reading list was the following:
- Moon, J. (1999). Reflection in Learning and Professional Development : Theory and Practice. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis.
- Hyland, K. (1999) Academic Attribution: Citation and the Construction of Disciplinary Knowledge. Applied Linguistics 20 (3), pp.341-367
- Dall’Alba, G. (2005) Improving teaching: Enhancing ways of being university teachers. Higher Education Research & Development 24 (4), pp. 361–372
- Macfarlane, B., & Gourlay, L. (2009) The Reflection Game: enacting the penitent self, Teaching in Higher Education, 14 (4), pp. 455-459 – The reflection of this article by me is summed up on the previous blog post.
Summary and table discussion:
— Improving teaching Dall’Alba 2005 – Dan
Theorising the way they teach. Learning as an experience and not just giving information.
Is teaching more difficult than learning? The care you need to have when trying to create new experiences taking in consideration Dif backgrounds. Teaching in a collaborative way and questioning the authority of the teacher.
The most important thing is the literature being presented to produce reflexivity.
Being able to think on your feet and work the room.
— Hyland K 1999 – Sade
Citation is really important for stabilising credible writing ethos. Construction of academic facts.
Locating within a body of knowledge where the gaps are and the reflections that can me made. Giving reference to those who came before and locate your body of knowledge within. Building blocks of knowledge.
State the difference between citations in social sciences and place engineering and physics below the average.
Table discussion: citation being important to build on knowledge but also a way to keep the status quo of knowledge as may voices are not published.
— Moon, reflection in learning – Don
Is reflection conscious?
Reflection as seeing the same, mirror image. Confirmation bias? Reflection taken a crude meaning of the word.