Reflection in action: professional development study visits

How close to the moment can you get? "Be here now,"  urges 1960s psychologist Richard Alpert. A mythical Google aspires to a perfect concurrent rendering of this reality: in real-time, in software. How much rewinding can we do before anyone notices the pause for thought? Reflection in action often has the effect of: "Oops! Don't … Continue reading Reflection in action: professional development study visits

Thoughts on Internationalising the home student conference 19/06/09

I attended the opening plenary of the CICIN conference to hear John Raftery, ProVC for Student Experience and Douglas Bourne, head of the Development Education Centre at IoE, London. *John Raftery* opens the conference, quoting Sen asking us to resist the ideas that we have a single identity and that we "discover" our identity. He … Continue reading Thoughts on Internationalising the home student conference 19/06/09