This blogpost covers the week’s challenges and thoughts on it. Click here for this week’s reflection and here for a reflection on the continuation of RI1.
This week’s challenge had us analysing our CRJ so far in the context of the five reflective domains that were presented to us in the weekly content.
Briefly explained the five reflective domains are:
Dispositional – how do you get yourself to complete tasks? What is your disposition towards what needs to be done? Includes aspects like time management and is often seen as the base domain for if this one is off then none of the other kinds of reflections can be done.
Affective – How did you feel completing the task and how did your emotions shape the experience? This has to do with emotional intelligence and maturity whilst handling tasks.
Interpersonal – how did you work with others and how did those relationships affect the work? This has to do with all kinds of communication between yourself and your team members.
Cognitive – How do you adapt the learning and the activity so that you can best partake in it? This has to do with knowing yourself and how you work best and then using this knowledge in meaningful ways to enable better work.
Procedural – what skills do you have and are you developing to enable you to work better? This has to do with identifying areas that need work and coming up with effective strategies to tackle them.
We had to go through our previous entries and see how many of the different kinds of reflection our entries contained, tallying this up to get an overview of what kind of reflection we were carrying out in general. Finally we had to come up with a few SMART objectives to help us strengthen areas that need work.
Below is my table:
| Blog post | Dispositional | Affective | Interpersonal | Cognitive | Procedural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | ● | ● | |||
| 1.2 | ● | ● | |||
| 2.1 | ● | ● | |||
| 2.2 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| 3.1 | ● | ● | ● | ||
| 3.2 | |||||
| 3.3 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| 4 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| TOTAL | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
Fig. 1: **Sarah Gomes Munro 2023. Table of critical reflection
Most: Cognitive and Procedural thinking
Least: Dispositional
Remarks
Procedural reflections tends to be dominant in reflective work as it is the active revision of skills and ongoing strengthening and plans, the fact that it has tied for first place therefore doesn’t surprise me. I find it interesting and reassuring that cognitive reflection is so prevalent, it tells me that I am considering the learning and adapting it to my needs. It’s not something I have had to think to intentionally about so it’s good to know that my instincts are in the right place in this regard.