Developing Reflexive Practitioner Reflection Assessment for Professional Development

Submission requirements for Developing Reflexive Practitioner Reflection Assessment

Students are required to submit their coursework through JIRA. Only assessments submitted through JIRA will be marked. Any other submission including submission to your study centre in hard copy will be treated as a non-submission.

For this module there is one individual research based assessment which is presented as a ‘Developing Reflexive Practitioner Reflection’.

Increasingly there is recognition of the significance of professional development within the management professions (e.g. HRM, Marketing Management, Financial Management and Management including Leadership). Therefore this research aims to present you with the opportunity to develop as a reflexive professional and scholar practitioner (Armstrong, 2018b).

This assignment helps you, being or to be a researching professional practitioner, explore the concept of reflexivity through narrating the changes as a result of COVID19 pandemic in workplace. Since December 2019, many incidents have presented exceptional circumstances in work life. This assignment explored how you came across the difficulties by introducing some personal or organizational contingent changes to cope with emergency or uncertainty. By reflection, you may learn knowledge or skills, unveil your true identity or even make any action to tackle the challenges in your workplace and future career planning.

This research is positioned within a critical qualitative inquiry

A1: Research Aim, Research Context and Literature Review (30 Marks)

(i) Choose one of the research aims as follows:

1. Making sense of feelings and emotions
2. Increasing self-awareness
3. Understanding and making sense of a trigger (‘A Critical incident’).

(ii) The research context is based on which professional identity you feel describes

you now and or your future aspirations:

From the professional body to frame your research choose at least 3 behaviours or values or professional standards (this is dependent upon the professional body).

For this part you are required to write around 750 words on your choice of research aim, the choice of professional body context and how you will approach this reflection as a literature review using academic citations of the approach to journaling (e.g. writing through the mirror; metaphorical approaches; artistic approaches; critical incident; mirror metaphors; cycles of reflection; experiential approaches; biographical approaches).

The purpose of this part is for you to critique and justify your research design in terms of your methodology (e.g. reflexive dialogic action research; reflexivity; auto-ethnographic practices; arts based or a bricolage of methodologies) and your method (Cycles of reflection e.g. Gibbs cycle or Gardner Cycle; JOHARI window; your personal cultural texts including your approach to coding these as qualitative data) and a critique of the research design (this is where you discuss and evaluate your researcher voice and the challenges you faced completing this critical qualitative inquiry).

This should be around 750 words and you are expected to have academic citations to support your critique and evaluation of your research design, methodology and method. You are required to provide a full bibliographic list of academic citations (all readings which you have cited in text and also read but not cited) using the Harvard referencing system. This does not count towards the word count.

This is the presentation of the analysed personal cultural texts in the form of a ‘storyboard’. The storyboard can be presented as either (choose 1 option only);

• At least a 1000 word Critical Incident Analysis
• At least a 1000 word Creative Writing
• At least a 750 word Critical Incident Analysis + At least a 750 word Creative Writing

Whichever method of presentation you choose you should include  List of Sources which have been used to create the storyboard (not counted in word count)