This article (11 page PDF) reports on efforts to implement critical reflection in community education initiatives. Critical reflection is, write the authors, "by its nature, difficult to implement within organisational cultures dominated by a narrow managerialism." Critical reflection is depicted here as a subset of reflective practice, one that goes beyond discovering what we already know and understand, and challenges the foundations of that knowledge by examining "how power influences educational processes" and by recognizing and uncovering "hegemonic assumptions." I think it could go a lot further, but these are the topical issues of the day. In this project, discussion groups (known as 'reflective circles') looked at examples of best practices in the light of the Community Learning and Development (CLD) Standard Council for Scotland. Image: Madeleine Brooks.
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