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Record Nr.

UNINA9910488720803321

Autore

Hunt Cheryl

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9783030665913

3030665917

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 pages)

Disciplina

160

370.152

Soggetti

Education - Philosophy

Continuing education

Educational Philosophy

Philosophy of Education

Lifelong Learning

Ensenyament reflexiu

Pensament crític

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.