Reflective Practice | Freire Institute

Paulo Freire’s philosophy of education has had a profound impact on people throughout the world working for social change. His work has been applied not only to formal educational settings but to many diverse social movements.

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Price: GBP 250.00

Reflective Practice

Becoming a critical, reflexive practitioner

Empowerment and growth through  critical self-reflection

Professional practice is shaped not only by technical knowledge and formal responsibilities, but also by experience, assumptions, values, identities, institutional cultures, relationships, and unequal distributions of power. Practitioners continually interpret situations and make judgements, often under pressure and without the opportunity to examine closely how their own position influences what they notice, how they respond, and how others experience their actions. This participatory workshop explores critical reflection and reflexivity as disciplined forms of professional learning . Drawing particularly upon Paulo Freire’s philosophy of dialogue, critical consciousness, and praxis,...

What might we learn about our professional practice if we examine not only what happened, but also how our own assumptions, values, position, and power helped shape what happened?

The workshop moves beyond reflection understood simply as asking whether something ‘went well’ or identifying what could be done better next time. Critical reflection asks deeper questions about assumptions, values, power, positionality, institutional expectations, and whose perspectives are being privileged. Reflexivity extends this further by asking how the practitioner themselves participates in producing the situations they are attempting to understand. Participants will work with concrete experiences from their professional lives, use structured processes of reflection and dialogue, and develop practical approaches that can be incorporated into everyday work. The aim is not endless...

What you learn

Analyse significant professional experiences using structured approaches to critical reflection, distinguishing observation, interpretation, assumption, judgement and alternative explanations.
Analyse how assumptions, values, professional identity, positionality and power influence professional relationships, interpretations and actions.
Critically compare alternative interpretations of professional situations by examining wider organizational, cultural, social and institutional contexts and using dialogue to test and refine understanding.
Develop and justify a contextually grounded change in professional practice arising from critical reflection, identifying how its effects will be evaluated and used to inform further reflection and action.

Availability

For organizations: This workshop is available in virtual, in-person, or hybrid formats to meet diverse organizational needs and preferences. We can tailor the focus to your specific institutional context.
For individuals: We will run occasional virtual workshops, and you are encouraged to join the notification list to be informed of upcoming dates.

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Custom workshops for organizations

Duration

You will continue to be registered in the course area for 3 months following the workshop.

Course Certificate

You will receive a certificate upon successful completion of the course.

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