Reflective Questions, Self-Questioning and Managing Professionally Situated Practice

Abstract

Reflective self-questioning arises within the work-place when people are confronted with professional problems and situations. This paper focuses on reflective and 'situated reflective' questions in terms of self-questioning and professional workplace problem solving. In our view, the situational context, entailed by the setting, social and personal/individual perspectives, is interactional. The supporting empirical data is drawn from our work with two groups in their tertiary phase of education:professional trainers within a large corporate organisation and para-professionals within a large college system; each embraces phenomenological principles. The discussions of situated reflective practice (SRP) entail those circumstances where change is visited upon the individual by forces outside their immediate control. The positive sense of SRP is that it can prepare an individual for anticipated change, and is therefore considered a method of change management. The situation acts as a catalyst for the thought.

The development of self skills in an authentic learning environment: A qualitative study

“…Self-enquiry involves questioning in the context of how the self thinks about itself (Malthouse, Watts & Roffey-Barentsen 2015 ). To facilitate self-awareness, learners must engage in self-questioning during their engagement in an AL environment.…”