Assessing the Effectiveness of Intergenerational projects:

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Intergenerational
projects

• Finding a space for ourselves
• Across the Divide
• July 18th 2007, Manchester

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Critical reflection

• Critical reflection is an internal dialogue in
  which individuals perceive and relate to their
  social worlds.
• (Jan Fook 2006)

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The Critical Reflective Practitioner

• develops the capacity to deconstruct knowledge
  and assumptions, in order to develop their own
  practice in inclusive, artistic and intuitive
  ways
• Jan Fook (200241)

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Reflexivity

• We all wear culturally tinted glasses through
  which we view the world there is no way we can
  take off our emerald (or crimson or aquamarine)
  spectacles and see the world, our actions, and
  those of others as they really are. (Bolton
  200131)

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Implications for research and practice

• Encourages critical assessment of potential
  projects and an awareness of assumptions and
  values
• See connections between research and practice
• Develops a research and evaluation culture
• Connects professionals from different disciplines
• Congruence with a range of research approaches
  and methods

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References

• Bolton, G (2001) Reflective Practice Writing and
  professional development. London Paul Chapman
• Fook, Jan (2002) Social Work Critical theory
  and Practice. London Sage
• Fook, Jan (2006) in Critical Reflection in Health
  and Social Care, Sue White, Jan Fook and Fiona
  Gardner (eds), Open University Press
• Fook, Jan and Gardner, Fiona (forthcoming)
  Practising Critical Reflection a resource
  handbook, Open University Press.

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Contact

• Dr Gillian Granville
• Gillian.granville_at_soton.ac.uk
• or
• Gillian_at_gilliangranville.com
• Mobile [phone]