Archives: January 2014

Thoughts on the reflective practitioner

In the article “Focus: Becoming a reflective practitioner”, http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/subjects/medev/Focus-_Becoming_a_reflective_practitioner the Higher Education Academy interrogates the concepts of reflection and reflective practice identifying them as  “two of the key buzzwords in professional and education practice at present”. They provide their definition of reflection, in the process breaking down what they see as the “key stages in reflective

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Research supervision…a few personal thoughts

Research supervision is pretty much always exciting for me. Not without its challenges, but exciting nonetheless. I’m a relative newcomer to supervising graduate research projects – I’ve only been doing it for four years – but it’s a part of my teaching commitment that I greatly relish. The term ‘supervision’ continues to strike me as

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