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Next LCT Centre Online Roundtable: October 6th - **4 pm SYD**
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Revealing the logics of practice through reflecting: A knowledge-building
approach
Lee Rusznyak
Students are increasingly being asked to reflect on their practice. Reflecting
is widely valued as a way of making students more aware of their feelings and
thoughts in the workplace. I argue that reflecting plays another valuable (yet
seldom considered) role in preparing students for practice. It potentially sets
up conditions for them to see relations between disparate parts of their
preparation programme. However, this does not happen by chance.
Using examples from teacher education, I show how tools from Legitimation Code
Theory (LCT) are being used to prepare students to use reflecting as a
mechanism for cumulative learning. A study using semantic waves, for example,
revealed why reflection prompts were constraining knowledge-building and how
the prompts needed to change. In another intervention, students analysed the
specialization codes and semantic profiles of their own reflections. Through
doing so, students became more aware of the complex knowledge work that
reflecting demands, and they discovered tools to help them navigate this
complexity. Their subsequent reflections showed far more sophisticated pathways
across the semantic plane. I conclude by arguing that a knowledge-building
approach to reflecting creates opportunities for students to uncover the logics
that give their developing practices internal coherence.
Date: Thursday, 6 October 2022
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm SYDNEY TIME (Figure out your local time
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