The Role of Student Feedback in Building Reflexive Teachers

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Author(s): Kerri Pilling Burchill (Southern Illinois Healthcare, USA)and David Anderson (Eastern Michigan University, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 15
Source title: Handbook of Research on Critical Thinking and Teacher Education Pedagogy
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Sandra P.A. Robinson (The University of the West Indies – Cave Hill Campus, Barbados)and Verna Knight (The University of the West Indies – Cave Hill Campus, Barbados)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7829-1.ch005

Keywords: Education / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design / Teacher Education

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The contemporary demands of the education environment today require that teachers refine their reflective thinking skills and shift towards the deeper critical thinking skills inherent in reflexive thinking. Reflexivity is a deeper level of critical thinking that assumes a degree of metacognition and “knowing-in-action” (Schon, 1983, p. 50). Metacognition is a critical tool in helping individuals become more aware of their deeply seeded biases and tacit assumptions about the way the world works. Through a phenomenological analysis of four individual case studies, this study found that student feedback was a key catalyst for building reflexivity skills. Specifically, the study details the key ways by which feedback prompted novice teachers to metacognitively think through their knowing-in-action and ultimately improve their teaching practice. The research details important implications in three areas: 1) practice, 2) theory, and 3) future research.

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