REFLECTIVE LEARNING JOURNAL

REFLECTIVE LEARNING JOURNAL Order Description   Response to Popper and Kuhn - Response to Week 3 + 4 material on the ideas of Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn, including independent reflections - Unit content weeks require you to link RD1 material to your own project, not simply summarize the material on its own - Entry contains excellent summary of relevant material, including strong written expression and evidence of deep intellectual engagement -Entry contains impressive and highly specific reflections in response to the assigned material. For full marks, we are looking for strong independent thought and a good narrative. Hook us in. Explain your brainwaves. Show us you are drilling deep with your thinking. The texts of Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn are detailed, so it will be difficult to show strong summary unless you spend lots of time drafting your response. You need to show us that you have really read the texts by extracting key themes and somehow weaving them together. To summarize texts of this nature, you can’t just skim over them or read someone else’s summary. You need to dwell within the texts and understand their logic to penetrate what they are saying. Because the entry is so short, you need to work hard to distill your summary in a convincing manner. These are some of the most important socio-cultural metanarratives about research practice ever to have been written. We look forward to hearing your response to them. Here are some prompts to get you started: • Remember that you must include both summary and reflection. This means you must somehow summarize the texts and link them to your own work in a reflective way. • A good tip is to take notes and write down any ideas you have while reading the texts. These notes can either be summary ideas, or ideas about how you might connect your own work to the issues therein. • At one level, the reflective elements of the entry should be a response to the texts: What do you think of their claims? Do you agree? Did you disagree? Was it a bit of both? Did anything surprise you? Was any new understanding sparked, either about your topic, your field, or academic work in general? • At another level, the reflective elements should give some concrete detail about your own work – either methodologically, theoretically, or practically. It is up to you as to how you combine this with the above questions, but remember that the criteria ask about ‘substance’.