MD3044 Social Enterprise in Practice Reflection

Benefits of reflection for students:
• serves as a record of achievement
• greater self- awareness
• helps you to build on your strengths
• helps you to work on your weaknesses
• improve your self-confidence and self-esteem
• understanding of past experiences
• preparation for the future and good practice
• continuing professional development (CPD)
What can be used as evidence?
Anything that illustrates your learning journey
• self directed study information
• questionnaires, class exercises and activities
• practice exercises for the coursework
• volunteering work details
• team meeting and project work information
• assignments and the feedback received
• self-evaluation and personal reflections
• personal development plan
How do you learn best?
Different people have different preferences:
•Inputs: Visual-auditory-kinaesthetic (VAK)
•Approach: Activist, Reflector, Pragmatist, Theorist (Kolb)
•Where and when do you learn best?
•What type of personality do you have?
https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
https://www.visualdna.com/quizzes/
(See Blackboard)
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Reflection – What and Why?
• stand back and critically examine your beliefs, feelings,
assumptions, interpretations, judgements…
• ask yourself a series of questions about your actions and
the results or consequences
• think about how you did well and how you might have
done better
• Reconsider how you might think and act in the future
• Develop greater to self-understanding and confidence
How to reflect?
Revisit a past experience and ask yourself things like:
•where did it take place?
•who were the participants?
•what did you do? What did they do?
•how did you feel at the time and afterwards?
•how did they seem to feel then and later?
•re-evaluate how you behaved, thought and felt
•What lessons might you draw from this, for the future?
1 Johns’ model of reflection (2000)
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2 Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle (1988)
Reflection Assignment Guidance
Assignment 2 – 40%
• Individual reflection (1,000 words)
• Use a model of reflection e.g. Gibbs’, Johns’
• Pick MAXIMUM 3 topics
• E.g. 2 topics = 500 words each
• Not too much description
• More analysis
• Relate to theory (Gibbs’ or Johns’)

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