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ERIC Number: EJ1188754
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 29
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-1546
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Examining Faculty Reflective Practice: A Call for Critical Awareness and Institutional Support
Hora, Matthew T.; Smolarek, Bailey B.
Journal of Higher Education, v89 n4 p553-581 2018
This interview-based study explores the nature of reflective practice among postsecondary faculty by examining the types of teaching-related data faculty use during their reflection, their reflective practice process, and the contextual factors that influence that process. Our findings indicate faculty drew on both numeric and non-numeric data forms to engage in reflective practice which complicates the current imagination of "data" within the Data-Driven Decision Making (DDDM) movement. Our findings also showed three distinct types of faculty reflection - instrumental, structural-critical, and social-critical - which demonstrate the varied functions and forms reflection can take. Finally, we demonstrate that although faculty consistently engaged in reflective practice, the outcomes of this reflection were severely limited by both individual bias and institutional constraints. Thus, while we recognize the current budgetary struggles many universities are facing, we argue that in order to better serve postsecondary students, particularly those from historically underrepresented groups, more institutional support is needed. Specifically, we argue postsecondary institutions play a significant role in facilitating critical examination by providing faculty the necessary space, time, and guidance to engage in critical reflection as well as the appropriate institutional mechanisms to voice concerns and enact change.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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