ERIC Number: EJ1022472
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
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Following Alice: Theories of Critical Thinking and Reflective Practice in Action at Postgraduate Level
Swanwick, Ruth; Kitchen, Ruth; Jarvis, Joy; McCracken, Wendy; O'Neil, Rachel; Powers, Steve
Teaching in Higher Education, v19 n2 p156-169 2014
This paper presents a flexible framework of principles for teaching critical thinking and reflective practice skills at the postgraduate level. It reports on a collaborative project between four UK institutions providing postgraduate programmes in deaf education. Through a critical review of current theories of critical thinking and reflective practice in higher education, the authors identified and constructed frameworks of principles for relevant skills. They selected a set of learning activities for the institutions to trial to target those skills. Students evaluated how successfully the activities promoted the skills. The investigators evaluate the methodology and provide a critique of the framework of principles. Findings reveal that the framework of principles is a robust model for the development, design and evaluation of bespoke learning activities targeting critical thinking and reflective practice skills.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Critical Thinking, Reflection, Graduate Study, Cooperation, Learning Activities, Deafness, Special Education Teachers, Focus Groups, Field Experience Programs, Feedback (Response), Likert Scales, Student Evaluation, Educational Philosophy, Educational Psychology, Debate, Student Attitudes, Educational Environment
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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