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The STAR Model of Reflective Writing

Aims to

 Describe the reflective process


 Discuss why reflective practice is important for managers
 Engage in reflective practice such that you feel comfortable in sharing your experiences with
others
 Provide greater self awareness through critical thinking and introspective techniques
 Use STAR model to achieve the objective

Reflective Process

Educators are currently facing immense challenge to utilise a structured pedagogical approach to
prepare the students reflect on a specific situation that they have come across in their personal or
professional life and gain knowledge, skills and values to handle similar future situations in better
way and ensure that best outcomes are achieved.

“Reflective writing … focuses on the writer’s learning experience itself and attempts to identify the
significance and meaning of a given learning experience, primarily for the writer” (Fink, 2003, p.
117).

Critical Reflection

A critical reflection generally requires you to analyse your personal experiences in relation to a topic
and to explore the social, political, educational and cultural contexts of that topic in order to expose
the underlying assumptions that would dictate your viewpoint.

Critical reflection is an important skill that will allow you to understand your beliefs, values and
biases, to work through seemingly contradictory feelings and reactions and to assess your learning in
order to transform your thinking from a passive learner to an active and engaged learner.

Critical Reflection will enable the students undertake

 Undertake Assumption analysis – challenging your beliefs and social structures in order to
determine their impact on your practice;

 Develop Contextual awareness – determining the social and cultural contexts that influence
your assumptions;

 Improve Imaginative speculation – imagining alternative ways of thinking in order to


challenge your current ways of thinking (what if…)

 Develop Reflective skepticism – questioning universal claims or unexamined interactions by


suspending or temporarily rejecting previous knowledge about the topic.
Critical Reflection for managers

Whilst many managers understand the need for critical reflection they often find it difficult to find
the time required to engage in this activity.

According to Joseph A Raelin (2002), Northeastern University, Author of Work-Based Learning and
Creating Leaderful Organizations,

 At times, managers/professionals are, unfortunately, unaware of their behaviour and its


consequences.
 There is an unfortunate gap between what many of the managers/professionals say they will
do and what they actually do.
 Most of the managers/professionals are biased in how they obtain information that, in turn,
produces cognitive ‘‘errors’’ in their perceptions of reality.

Managers can use a critical reflection process to overcome these deficiencies.

References

Fink, L. D. (2003). Creating significant learning experiences: An integrated approach to designing


college courses. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Raelin, J. A. (2002). I don’t have time to think!” versus the art of reflective practice. Reflections, 4(1),
66-79.

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