Demystifying Critical Reflection

Namala Tilakaratna is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Communication at the National University of Singapore. She has researched and published widely on LCT and SFL approaches to teaching critical thinking across a range of disciplines including social work and nursing. Eszter Szenes is a Lecturer at the School of Education, The University of Adelaide, Australia, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Resilience and Security, Norwich University, USA. Her research interests include disciplinary and critical digital literacies, critical thinking and information disorder.

1. Seeing knowledge and knowers in critical reflection: Legitimation Code Theory Part 1: Uncovering critical reflection 2. Developing disciplinary values: Interdisciplinary approaches to investigating critical reflection writing in undergraduate nursing 3. ‘I comply but deeply resent being asked to do so’: Ethical considerations of assessing students’ reflective writing 4. Critical re!ection and critical social work: Describing disciplinary values and knowledge Part 2: Supporting critical reflection in pedagogy 5. Enacting re!ective practice in sport and exercise sciences: Pedagogic and integrative perspectives 6. Consolidating performance: Reflection in the service of developing presentation skills 7. Teaching critical reflection in education diploma pathways: A pedagogic intervention 8. Writing blog critiques in teacher education: Teaching students what is valued with semantic gravity and genre theory 9. Knowledge-powered reflection in teacher education: Semantic waves and genre-based writing practice of museum experiences Part 3: Cultivating critically-reflective students 10. Framing the looking glass: Reflecting constellations of listening for inclusion 11. Football yadayada: Learning how to critically reflect about sport as a social field 12. Understanding students’ reflective engagement with academic texts