1st Edition
Demystifying Critical Reflection Improving Pedagogy and Practice with Legitimation Code Theory
Drawing on Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), this volume reveals the knowledge practices and language of critical reflection in a range of different subjects, making clear how it can be taught and learned.
Critical thinking is widely held to be a key attribute required for successfully living, learning and earning in modern societies. Universities now list critical thinking as a key graduate quality and use ‘critical reflection’ as a way of teaching students how to become reflective and ethical professionals. Yet, what ‘critical reflection’ actually involves remains vague in research, teaching practice, and assessment. Studies draw on LCT, a fast-growing framework for revealing the knowledge practices that enable educational success and the individual chapters focus on a diverse range of contexts across the disciplinary map, including education, science, arts, sociology and nursing. The book further connects research and practice by presenting in-depth analyses of critical reflection and providing practical insights into how LCT can be used to design pedagogic interventions.
The book offers a rich resource for both scholars and teachers who want to demystify critical reflection and prepare university students for the modern workplace.
1. Seeing knowledge and knowers in critical reflection: Legitimation Code Theory
Namala Tilakaratna and Eszter Szenes
Part 1: Uncovering critical reflection
2. Developing disciplinary values: Interdisciplinary approaches to investigating critical reflection writing in undergraduate nursing
Namala Tilakaratna
3. ‘I comply but deeply resent being asked to do so’: Ethical considerations of assessing students’ reflective writing
Eszter Szenes and Namala Tilakaratna
4. Critical re!ection and critical social work: Describing disciplinary values and knowledge
Sharon Aris
Part 2: Supporting critical reflection in pedagogy
5. Enacting re!ective practice in sport and exercise sciences: Pedagogic and integrative perspectives
Steve Kirk
6. Consolidating performance: Reflection in the service of developing presentation skills
Jodie L. Martin
7. Teaching critical reflection in education diploma pathways: A pedagogic intervention
Daniel O’Sullivan
8. Writing blog critiques in teacher education: Teaching students what is valued with semantic gravity and genre theory
Lucy Macnaught
9. Knowledge-powered reflection in teacher education: Semantic waves and genre-based writing practice of museum experiences
Nóra Wünsch-Nagy
Part 3: Cultivating critically-reflective students
10. Framing the looking glass: Reflecting constellations of listening for inclusion
Jodie L. Martin and Jennifer Walsh Marr
11. Football yadayada: Learning how to critically reflect about sport as a social field
Mark Brooke
12. Understanding students’ reflective engagement with academic texts
Laetitia Monbec
Biography
Namala Tilakaratna is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Communication at the National University of Singapore. She has researched and published widely on LCT and SFL approaches to teaching critical thinking across a range of disciplines including social work and nursing.
Eszter Szenes is a Lecturer at the School of Education, The University of Adelaide, Australia, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Resilience and Security, Norwich University, USA. Her research interests include disciplinary and critical digital literacies, critical thinking and information disorder.
