Professional Experience and the Investigative Imagination: The Art of Reflective Writing

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ISBN: 9780415195423 | 041519542X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/2/1999

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The Art of Professional Reflectionexplains how creative writing can be used successfully in the context of professional education. It argues that there is a role for this imaginative style in an area that has traditionally favored a more distances approach to reporting on the professional experience. This book makes available a new and more broadly based approach to the process of professional reflection.

Preface

Acknowledgements

xiii

List of stories and patchwork texts

Reflecting on experience and the imaginative construction of meaning: writing and sharing `fictions'

(19)

Prologue

(3)

Sharing stories

(5)

Constructing a `patchwork text'

(6)

Writing fictions as a contribution to `methods' for reflection

(3)

Conclusion

(2)

The imagination of meaning: writing and interpreting stories in a professional context

(44)

Introduction

(1)

Stories

(4)

The Story-writing workshops

(40)

a story as a statement: repetition and reversal

(3)

Story as a projection of sympathy l empathy

(6)

empathy/ stereotyping/ identification

(3)

contrasts (I): theory and practice

(2)

contrasts (II): professional and client

(3)

contrasts (III): theatre and society

(2)

a ghost story

(3)

a story as a metaphor for practice (I): an exotic myth

(3)

a story as a metaphor for practice (II): a mundane allegory

(5)

what is a story? (I): `reflexivity': a story about writing a story

(3)

what is a story? (II): voices for documentary'

(2)

what is a story? (III): a patchwork of quotations

(4)

The `patchwork text': shaping meaning through the exploration of diversity

(43)

Introduction

(2)

The patchwork text

(4)

The `reflective writing' course

(37)

Opening up the ending of `a story'

(4)

Variations on a theme

(5)

Exploring a role (I)

(6)

`Professional' meanings in `personal' experience

(4)

Exploring personal `origins' for professional `skills'

(7)

Exploring a role (II)

(9)

The reflective writing course: distance-learning materials

107

(42)

Introduction

107

(39)

reflective writing, ground rules, sharing, getting started

109

(6)

beginnings endings, continuations

115

(5)

writing fiction

120

(7)

writing as exploration, moving from detail to generalisation

127

(8)

Ways of `structuring' a text, irony

135

(4)

metaphor, the variety of writing `formats'

139

(2)

constructing a `patchwork text'

141

(3)

putting together the final draft

144

(2)

Two notes for course tutors

146

(3)

Participants' views: `What was it like and what effect did it have?'

149

(16)

Participants' experience of the reflection writing course

149

(9)

The impact of the course on participants' practice

158

(3)

Responses to the story-writing workshops

161

(4)

`Breaking the mould', a case study: experiencing the reflecting writing course

165

(15)

Artistry, fiction and reflection: the strange absence of the creative imagination in professional education

180

(41)

Introduction

180

(1)

The reflective paradigm (I): a summary

181

(4)

The reflective paradigm (II): theoretical and political context

185

(10)

Reflection and `the shaping spirit of imagination'

195

(11)

From `literature' to `storying experience'

206

(4)

The multi-voiced text: collage, montage, patchwork

210

(4)

Writing and sharing fiction: an emancipatory social practice for the stroying imagination

214

(4)

Conclusion: writing and sharing fiction as an artistic practice for the reflective citizen

218

(3)

Epilogue: The professional worker and the artist - two myths of betrayal

221

(4)

Bibliography

225

(6)

Index

231

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Professional Experience and the Investigative Imagination: The Art of Reflective Writing

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