Professionalism, Reflection and Criticism
Tuesday 25 June 2013 at the University of Derby
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The Centre for Educational Research is pleased to announce the fourth annual 'professionalism' conference sponsored by the Standing Committee for the Education and Training of Teachers (SCETT).
Keynote Speaker: Professor Stephen D. Brookfield
Critical Reflections on Reflective Practice
"Most practitioners would probably say they support the goal of helping colleagues to think and act more critically and more reflectively. Rare indeed are those practitioners who would want to be identified as working in an uncritical or unreflective way. But what acting critically looks like varies considerably depending on your politics, identity and the intellectual traditions you take most seriously. In this interactive session Stephen Brookfield will take a critical theory perspective on what critical reflection looks like, and will link it to radical, activist traditions".
About Stephen
Since beginning his teaching career in 1970, Stephen has worked in England, Canada, Australia, and the United States, teaching in a variety of college settings. He has written fifteen books on adult learning, teaching, critical thinking, discussion methods and critical theory. Among his publications is the influential book Becoming A Critically Reflective Teacher which is one of six of his works that have won the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education (in 1986, 1989, 1996, 2005, 2011 and 2012). He also won the 1986 Imogene Okes Award for Outstanding Research in Adult Education. His work has been translated into German, Korean, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, and Polish.
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