Transcription of Critically reflective practice
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197 Critically reflective practice is a process of inquiryinvolving practitioners in trying to discover, andresearch, the assumptions that frame how theywork. Critically reflective practitioners constantlyresearch these assumptions by seeing practicethrough four complementary lenses: the lens oftheir own autobiographies as learners of reflectivepractice, the lens of learners eyes, the lens of col-leagues perceptions, and the lens of theoretical,philosophical, and research literature. Reviewingpractice through these lenses makes us more awareof those submerged and unacknowledged powerdynamics that infuse all practice settings. It alsohelps us detect hegemonic assumptions assump-tions that we think are in our own best interests butthat actually work against us in the long aware of our assumptions is a puz-zling and contradictory task. Very few of us canget very far doing this on our own. No matterhow much we may think we have an accuratesense of ourselves, we are stymied by the factthat we are using our own interpretive filters tobecome aware of our own interpretive filters.
tion. Even under the cloak of anonymity, it feels risky to point out oppressive aspects of a leader’s practice. It takes courage to raise in public ques-tions about how leaders have unwittingly stifled free discussion, broken promises, or treated cer-tain kinds of people with more deference than others. So a cardinal principle of seeing ourselves
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