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Creative Dialogues: connecting the learning process and the creative process through reflection. “…monologic [monologue] is insufficient for understanding critical thinking.” King and Kitchener (1994), Developing Reflective Judgement.
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Creative Dialogues:connecting the learning process and the creative process through reflection
“…monologic [monologue] is insufficient for understanding critical thinking.”King and Kitchener (1994), Developing Reflective Judgement
Plato and Socrates, whilst establishing the dialogue form, also established the hierarchical relationship between intellect and practice
Developed further through Cartesian dualism – the mind trapped within a mechanistic body
Rousseau and then Dewey both provide a significant challenge to the dualist nature of Cartesian Rationalism through the notion of ‘experience’ as a primary factor in learning as an ‘ongoing process’
“The reference to experience has been dismissed by many as it deals with the body, appetites, the senses, the material world, while thinking proceeds from the (perceived) higher faculty of reason and spirit”Brockbank and McGill Facilitating Reflective Learning in Higher Education1999 :23
Creative Dialogues:connecting the learning process and the creative process through reflection
“I consider reflection as ‘ a form of mental processing with a purpose and/or anticipated outcome that is applied to relatively complex or unstructured ideas for which there is not an obvious solution”Jennifer Moon (1999)
Cowan’s Developments Reflecting for in on action prior exploratory consolidating further
Four Positions of Reflection within a Compositional Module Position 2: Ongoing Reflection P E RFORMA NCE Position 1: The Initial Stage Position 4: Outcomes Stage Position 3: Reflective Dialogues Bailey & Brannen 2002
Positions of Reflection within a Compositional Module • 1.The Initial • Stage • -Past Experience • Identifying Obstacles • -Facilitating self-directed solutions Reflection- For- Action 2. Ongoing Individual Reflection -Diary -Learning Journal -Notebook Reflection- On- Action
Positions of Reflection within a Compositional Module Reflection- In- Action 3. Reflective Dialogues -Sharing & testing of work 4. Outcomes Stage -Performance Evaluation -Written -Viva -Final Entry Evaluative Critical Reflection
Four Positions of Reflection within a Compositional Module Position 2: Ongoing Reflection P E RFORMA NCE Position 1: The Initial Stage Position 4: Outcomes Stage Position 3: Reflective Dialogues Bailey & Brannen 2002
Key Voice Impact through Reflective Dialogue Developed Creative Cycle KEY VOICE Initial Creative Cycle
“They had this unspoken agreement that no one would bring anything too completed to the process.. A fragment of text, an idea or two for action… everything unfinished, distinctly incomplete…”Tim Etchells (1999),Certain Fragments