Essays on Critical Reflection

It is agreeable that no one is born with philosophical beliefs. But with time, people develop certain beliefs becoming so embedded into them to the point that they stop to be conscious. Automatically, these beliefs develop into habits of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Our identities develop from what we believe in since persons are not born with their identities (Eccles 83). In other words, it is also safe to say that an attempt to change our beliefs threatens our identities. This is the reason as to why changing our beliefs remains very challenging to most of us. For an ...

Social change is an inevitable condition in organizations. In essence, social change in an organization typically occurs due to variations in the behavioral aspects of the constituent people. It can also occur due to the consistent alterations dictated by time changes. Moreover, it can also occur following the need for transformation in an institution. Social change agents, social workers serve an essential function of initiating and implementing behavioral change in a social change organization. Social change is justified as a coping mechanism for an alteration in an aspect(s) of an institution. Social change is unavoidable in learning institutions. ...

“Cornel West – Race Matters” documents a number of integral aspects of sociology. Critical reflection questions that arise from this analysis have been identified as part of the report. The following research will be presented for several key areas of literature. “Race Matter” will be summarized, followed by a connection between scholarly literature and readings through ‘Let Nobody Turns Us Around”. Finally, the Answers to essay questions in this piece will be defined in terms of relevance to core sociological principles.

Summary

Americans are discussed in terms of their obsessions as well as the way that market culture has changed sexuality ...

Moral luck emerges when one is treated well or praised regardless of the fact that the outcome of what has led him or her to be praised is dependent on other factors that are beyond his or her control. (Thomas, N. 1979) & (Williams B. 1993) Thomas Nagel in his article of “Moral Luck” (1979) noted that in our day to day activities, moral blame and moral praise are influenced to a greater extent intuitively. He gave an example of two reckless drivers where one causes an accident and the other does not. The fact the driver who has caused ...

The Transformative learner

According to Jack Mezirow (1996), transformative learning is the process of using prior interpretation to construe a revised or a new interpretation of the meaning of an individual's experience in order to guide future actions" The transformative learning theory outlines the process of perspective transformation as having three broad dimensions,Behavioral,conventional and psychological. Through the transformative learning, the individual (learner) goes under a change in perspective, the way he conceptualizes the world, himself and others around him.

Various authors have identified three factors that determine if a student will turn out be a transformative learner:

- Characteristics of the instructor and the student - Learning environment - Instructional activities (Jones 2008) Developing students are not simply ...

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Literature Review

Professionals and scholars in the field of marketing and management have since become fascinated with the idea of co-creation. Zwick et al. (2008, pp. 163-196) emphasized the importance of co-creation with regard to its political impact in the cultural, social and economic realms, taking into consideration the notion of Michel Foucault on the government and labor-and-value theories advocated by neo-Marxism. Contrary to the traditional perception of consumers as passive entities in any given market, co-creation brings to light their capabilities in terms of practicing their power to interact with firms on resource ...

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Introduction

The best way to describe critical reflection is through a passage delivered by Aldous Huxley in which he said, “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happened to him” (University of Texas, 2012). In the healthcare profession, a health professional is confronted by situations that that requires critical understanding. Some encounters are challenging and perplexing. And because there is a level of urgency in the practice of medicine and healthcare, majority of the time healthcare practitioners does not have the luxury of time to contemplate on their actions. This is unless the incident ...

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Introduction to Burnout

Burnout refers to the condition of exhaustion of physical or emotional strength, or loss of motivation to work. Usually, burnout is caused by prolonged stress or frustration affecting the involvement of employees for meaningful impact on work. Burnout has also been described as extreme fatigue, inefficacy, and loss of idealism and passion for the job. Burnout syndrome can be illustrated by the “feelings of emotional exhaustion, negative attitudes and emotions towards those who are beneficiaries of the service (depersonalization), and sentiments related to professional failure and low accomplishment (lack of personal accomplishment)” (Schaufeli, & Maslach, 1993). Any person with ...

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Theoretical Framework for Reflective Learning 3 Advantages Associated with Reflective Learning 4 Brain and the Reflective Learning System 5 Natural learning system of Brain 6 Emotions & Learning 6 Emotional Intelligence 7 Learning in Adults and Technical training 7 Conclusion 8

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Preface The reflective learning enhances the inner structure to promote the learning. It involves the various processes involving the brain and emotions. The brain is able to think consciously. It is also analyzing the working of the individual, e.g. what is he doing or is intending to do. For instance, in ...

The capacity for evidence-based project implementation, evaluation, and dissemination as well as for research and nurse leadership improves with continued practice. Learning from practice is espoused by Kolb’s theory of experiential learning summed up as “constructing knowledge and meaning from real-life experience” (Yardley, Teunissen & Dorman, 2012, p. 161). Such learning is possible by engaging in reflection with the purpose of drawing insights that will enhance future practice. Without reflection, there is very little chance of rectifying prior mistakes or addressing weaknesses. Thus, self-reflection is one strategy that I will use to further my professional development goals. Based ...

The Article on the Standards of Practice for Culturally competent Nursing Care: 2011 update published in the Journal of Transcultural Nursing in 2011, looks into the practical standards that can be applied in the health care setting to ensure safe and effective health care services to the patients. The standards stated in the article reflect a global health care practice environment in terms of clinical practice, education, research as well as administration. Therefore, the standards addressed in the article address different parties for health care services which range from individuals to populations. One such party is the Military population in ...

Elder and Paul (2011) posit, “There are predictable stages through which every person who develops as a critical thinker passes” (p. 1). I agree with this assertion. If we assume that the premise learning is a process holds true, then that process offers great insights of Elder and Paul’s argument. The later premise for learning as a process shows that a thinker must move from regions of familiarity to unfamiliar one. Critical thinking requires that the person understand the basic concept of a theory if s/he is to think critically about that theory. The converse ideation, where critical thinking precedes basic understanding, is ...

- Why it is difficult to distinguish between clinical-decision making errors solely due to intuitive judgment or analytical judgment? Clinical decision-making is based on the situation nurses face at hand. These situations may require the application of expertise or intuition in addressing it. Errors may result from either applying the right analytical procedures to a scenario or using traditional ritualistic reasoning. According to Hughes (2008), using intuitive judgment in most cases results to improving the standard nursing practices. Intuitive judgment assists in developing new standards reducing the use of wrong and outdated approaches to health care, and increasing prevention ...

Analysis of Consumer Research

This paper is devoted to the critical review of the three articles related the theory of consumer compliance. The studies offered three different approaches to the issues raised. Empirical data was obtained with the help of in-depth interviews and secondary data analysis. Such a combination of the research methods helps saving time and cost while obtaining the information required for the analysis. Samples used in each research vary significantly as well as the goals of each research. However, they allow making conclusions regarding the goals set. The following articles were proposed for analysis: “Gaining Compliance and Losing Weight: the ...

Theoretical Framework

Women in leadership in higher education: Theoretical framework Introduction

While ‘feminism’ and ‘feminist’ are terms that have been explored at length in literature, affiliating these terms to concepts of leadership has been rare. However, feminists have increasingly evaluated and studied the practice of leadership from a feminist perspective, or feminist leadership, especially since the advent of Second Wave feminism in the 1970s and 1980s . However, majority of this work remains unpublished and difficult to access as it is not available as part of journal or on the internet.

Most prominent feminist theories are based on common assumptions that affirm ...

Introduction

Young adults of today spend more time “accessing digital-media information than information from traditional printed texts” (Hsu & Wang, 2011, p. 68), which contributes to their negative reading achievement. As such, it is important to determine how online literacies and new media affect the reading skills of students in higher education.

Educational technology has been in use throughout history, going back to as early as when sign writing was used for capturing and transmitting knowledge (Ellison & Wu, 2008). Computer technology, in particular, began to be used in the classroom setting in the 1930s when teachers used audiovisual tools ...

The main drive for me joining MA studies was to further my theoretical knowledge development in Art and Architecture outside the commercial context within which I have been working. This journey in my career outside class has been intensive and productive. It has led me to places would never have thought to visit. This journey has also challenged my understanding on what can be considered as photogenic subject matter. The nature of my work initially concentrated around the genre of documentary photography. Consequently, I have found my self delving deeper into its style, methods and story telling values. I ...

Ferraro’s critical reflection on culture affirms the critical role that culture plays in the society. Reading the reflection generated new learning for me in respect to understanding that culture is acquired and that no culture is inferior to the other. I learnt that it is possible for one culture to “kill” the other as it happened in Australia where domination of Aboriginal culture by that of the Europeans deprived them social and economic advancement (Edwards, 1998). The extinction of one culture deprives the world of cultural diversity and could have detrimental consequences to the environment.

The reflection on ...