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 Internalizing The Experiences:

Evaluating Social Patterns and Processes

“critical reflection turns the spotlight squarely onto issues of power and control. It assumes the minutiae of practice have embedded within them the struggles between unequal interests and groups that exist in the wider world. For reflection to be considered critical then, it must have as its explicit focus uncovering and challenging the power dynamics that frame practice and ... hegemonic assumptions” –Stephen Brookfield (2009)

 

  • Global << - >> Local - Identifying the connection

 

  • Questioning why disparities exist and asking who/what perpetuats them

 

  • Critically analyzing the social and strctural conditions that prolong cycles of poverty

    • -Examining the system as a connected body - holism

 

  • Understanding equality versus equity

 

  • “Us” and “Them”

    • ​-The pursuit of becoming "One"

 

  • Serving and participating versus “helping”

 

  • Evaluating personal privilege

 

  • Leadership and personal/academic/professional growth

Reflection

 

  • Characteristics of successful reflection: continuous, challenging, connected, and contextualized (Collier and Williams, 2005)

 

  • Recognizing and dismantling subconscious assumptions

 

 

  • Reflectng on identity

    • -Internal versus external identity

    • -Cultural Pie Exercise

 

  • Reflection vs. Critical Reflection

Sidle's

"Five Intelligences of Leadership"

(2007)

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