1st Edition

Demystifying Critical Reflection Improving Pedagogy and Practice with Legitimation Code Theory

Edited By Namala Tilakaratna, Eszter Szenes Copyright 2024
266 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.