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Writing MemoryWriting Reflective Analysis
Thinking and Planning – Ideas and structure
+Reflections = memories, events, thinking, making meaning from the past Events
Times when you remember GOOD learning
A breakthrough…
a time when you changed through learning
Or FAILURE to learn
Or CONSTANT FAILURE to learn
Analysis – deconstructing and reconstructing so that you can see its parts, how it works, what it is made of, why it works that way.
+Finding a context / memory
A geography Project is a moment of discovery…?
Or a moment of something being born…?
My Memory is Bophal
What did I learn?
+Character: What are some attributes you have developed over time?
Choose ONE that resonates with a memory
Choose TWO that show different parts of your character
+How do these things relate?
Memory – this is the core example that SHOWS your attribute.
Learning – look at your example – what does it say about you (check the handout for ways to explain this)
Character – Check that your memory, learning behaviour both SHOW the attribute you are discussing
CORE IDEA – this is the RESULT of deep thinking about the connections between these
+Components for my PLAN TO WRITE
Choice / problem-
based
Bophal Disaster
Sense of Social Justice
Opportunity to explore the
world nurtured a personal attribute
+Reflection: a conversation with self
+The Participant Observer Acting self Writing
self
DoingThinking Writing Learnt
Learning
Narrative Reflective Analysis
+Identity Changes of the Writer RETELLING the event/action represents the ACTING SELF
I felt terrible! Why did it happen?
Recalling thoughts and feelings around the event/action shows a
PARTICPANT OBSERVER
“At the time I felt terrible and had so many questions. Now, I have
terrible answers to these questions – wealth and power are unfeeling,
distance between those who harm and the harmed creates inhumane
irresponsibility. Yet, this was the first step towards taking a stand on
Social Justice events, to not sit on the sideline about the values that
impassion me.
+Example
How do groups learn?