Diffracting reflection: a move beyond reflective practice

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dc.contributor.authorMitchell, Veronica
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-31T09:14:52Z
dc.date.available2018-08-31T09:14:52Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractReflective practice has become a core component in higher education studies. In the health sciences, reflective tasks are required throughout the undergraduate programmes, yet many students struggle to find value in these tasks for their present and future professional practice. Benefits that can be derived from the process are undermined by this lack of motivation for reflective engagement. Concern around the static, contained, individualist nature of reflections that often face judgement through assessment can be addressed by opening up the process to generate new potentials. In this paper, I draw on new materialism and the Baradian (2007) philosophy of diffraction to move beyond the reflective practices of representation and sameness by affirmatively working with/through differences. I refer to data collected in an ethics approved research study at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, to explain a context of unjust practices in which students learn. I demonstrate how students’ reflective texts shared online on the Google Drive platform can be productive and transformative material forces that enact new knowledge, valued by students. The apparatus of text-students-events is put to work creating new possibilities to enable a socially just pedagogy in medical education.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMitchell, V. (2017). Diffracting reflection: a move beyond reflective practice. Education as Change, 21(2): 165 - 186.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1947-9417
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.17159/1947-9417/2017/2023
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3983
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherUNISA Pressen_US
dc.rightsThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectReflectionen_US
dc.subjectSocially just pedagogiesen_US
dc.subjectDiffractionen_US
dc.subjectBaraden_US
dc.subjectNew materialismen_US
dc.subjectAffecten_US
dc.subjectMedical educationen_US
dc.subjectObstetricsen_US
dc.titleDiffracting reflection: a move beyond reflective practiceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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