¶ … Reflexive Practice, Leadership and Critical Thinking
All three themes -- critically reflective practice, leadership, and critical thinking, can be summarized in the following snippet: An American president, as President Reagan's speechwriter, Peggy Noonan (1990), discovered experiences America by looking down. Much of his time is spent encountering his country and people via helicopter from which he sees tiny houses, tiny people, tiny cars, tiny roads. Noonan wondered how this affected Reagan's perspective. She later found out that it compelled him to see them as outside of himself and as himself as distinct from them.
This snippet, it seems to me, is somewhat what reflective thinking, critical thinking, and leadership are all about. Each concept contains a meta-analytic sort of substance, similarly to inhabiting a plateau where the air is more refined and where the person is separate from others.
Let's take these concepts one by one.
Critically reflexive practice: Pungently, Brookfield (1998) compares this to a dog trying to catch its tail. Being 'in' ourselves', it is utterly impossible for ourselves to see ourselves and our existence (or ontology) in a transcendental manner. The closest we can come to this, Brookfield (1998) suspects, is via four types of lenses: the lens of our own autobiographies as critical thinkers; the lens of learners' eyes; the lens of colleagues' perceptions; and the lens of theoretical, philosophical, and research literature.
1. The lens of our own autobiographies as critical thinkers -- Our habits of thoughts, decisions, and actions are, invariably, rooted in a mix of enculturation, personal experience, and social programming. Critically examining our autobiography may help us uncover certain roots to our habits.
2. The lens of learners' eyes -- welcoming criticism and attempting to see the piece of learning through the eyes of the other
3. The lens of colleagues' perceptions -- discussing and sharing our thoughts and perceptions with colleagues provides us with access to their original insights and illuminations.
4. The lens of theoretical, philosophical, and research literature -- Theory provides multiple perspectives on our one habitual perspective of 'reality'. Multi-faceted perspective...
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