Abstract Community research and action is an evolving field of practice with multiple influences. Its varied ways knowing doing reflect recombined elements from different disciplines, including behavioral science, community psychology, public health, development. This article offers a personal reflection based on my over nearly 50 years. The focus three types influence: (a) engaging communities...

Utilising Rolfe's [Rolfe, G., 1998. Expanding Nursing Knowledge: Understanding and Researching Your Own Practice. Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford] reflexive action research, one novice nurse educator explored current teaching practice. The data were collected from a reflective journal and colleague feedback. Through this data collection and applying Rolfe's (1998) understanding-action-evaluation ...

The aim of this reflection is to explore a broad framework within which chaplaincy understands itself. It arises out of my own experience as a chaplain in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, which became first the South Birmingham Acute Unit, and then the University Hospital NHS Trust, between 1990 and 1996; though the reflection adopts a wider perspective. It is my aim to highlight the areas that re...

no volition has any moral value except as it is determined by a preceding moral principle or disposition—a moral spontaneity; and of course it is applicable to bad as well as good acts of choice. Let us then read the foregoing utterance in relation to bad acts of choice: This is the general notion, not that principles derive their badness from actions, but that actions derive their badness from...

This paper is a reflection on an article by Hellmuth et al., and part of the point-counterpart series. In this reflection, I consider etymological origins term “authenticity” explore existential phenomenological aspects authenticity, action, leadership. particular, note absence contextual issues such as gender.

This paper presents our approach of using hypertext representations to support a scholar in the early stages of a scholarly writing process. We take D. A. Schoen’s model of design as a theoretical framework. Schoen views design as a reflective conversation with the materials of a situation, where the designer interacts with the materials, such as pen and sketch on a sheet of paper, in the refle...

Do we really know what critical reflection means in the context of work-integrated learning, more specifically cooperative education? Critical reflection, in some form, is located within many higher education programmes, including cooperative education and many educators would say this is important for in-depth student learning. It is a form of reflection that is complicated as well as challeng...