Critical Reflection, Spirituality and Professional Practice / by Cheryl Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Cheryl, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Continuing education.

Educational Philosophy.

Philosophy of Education.

Lifelong Learning.

Local Subjects:

Educational Philosophy.

Philosophy of Education.

Lifelong Learning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2021.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

Summary:

This book explores the concept and facilitation of critical reflection and its implications for professional practice. It draws on the author’s own extensive experience to demonstrate how reflective processes involving metaphor and imagery, as well as critique, can be used not only to understand and articulate key values underpinning professional practice and to generate new theoretical models, but to explore one's own worldview, including the ultimate question: 'Who am I?’. The author incorporates practical examples of reflection-through-writing and other reflective techniques which illustrate how ideas about critical reflection, transformative learning, authenticity and spirituality are intricately entwined within theories and practices of adult learning and professional development. The book highlights the importance of understanding the relationship between personal worldviews, values and professional practice. It draws on the concepts of vocation and professional psychological wellbeing to consider what it means to act authentically as a professional within an audit culture. The book will be invaluable for practitioners, academics and students interested in critical reflection, educational inquiry, autoethnography and the use of the self in and as research, the nature and use of metaphor, and the development of worldviews.

Contents:

Part I: ‘Of Dots and Dragons’

Chapter 1: Joining the Dots

Part II: ‘Shifting Shadows’

Chapter 2: Understanding Reflective Practice

Chapter 3: Reflecting on Facilitating and Doing Reflective Practice

Chapter 4: Speaking Metaphorically

Part III: ‘Encounters with Elephants’

Chapter 5: Shaping a Unique World

Chapter 6: Walking the Talk

Chapter 7: Spiralling Around Spirituality

Part IV ‘Only the Trying’

Chapter 8: Seeking Integration.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783030665913

3030665917

OCLC:

1260346052