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Process of thinking, comparing and verifying;
Utilizing past experiences in order
to improve the future |
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Self-reflection and the willingness to challenge taken-for-granted beliefs and practices;
an approach to aid in the production of knowledge from experience by examining the impact of ones' position and action |
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Reflection vs. Critical Reflexivity |
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Reflection: individual activity, interpretive position, goal of learing about and improving a situation for the future
Critical Reflexivity: Self-knowing/inward gaze, recognize our own influence, & influences of & within social, political, and cultural contexts, goal of social transformation |
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Ideas and values which organize & maintain the 'relations of ruling' in our society... the medium through which our ideas, practices, and social relations are organized and operate in everday life
(Our everyday actions of life are shaped by events and signifcances in our upbringing) |
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Concept of humans as essentially separate, rational agents who can be abstracted from their social, economic, political, or historical context |
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