Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

 

Date of this Version

2006

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2006) 24

doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0024.019

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License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

Brookfield (1995), Schön (1983), and others articulate the necessity and complexity of being critically reflective in our work. Indeed, the value of critical reflection is inherent to educational development as a field in that we frequently encourage such thinking in our consultations with instructors. But practicing what we preach can be difficult. This chapter reflects on an experiment in the transformation of a teaching assistant orientation, a central event of our teaching center. We not only describe and assess the process of revising this orientation, but we also reflect on the implicatiom of this case for broader programming issues in faculty and teaching assistant development.

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