1. Reflexivity in practice learning: mapping the (SHAREd) journey
Siobhan Maclean
July 2019

2. SHARE Seeing Hearing Action Reading Evaluation
SHARE is a newly developed model (Maclean, Finch and Tedam 2018)
Multi-sensory approach
Wide range of stakeholders involved
Wide application – both practice and practice learning
Seeing
Hearing
Action
Reading
Evaluation

3. SHARE IN ASSESSMENT Seeing: What have you seen?
Hearing: What have you heard? (Consider validity)
Action: What have you done? What impact has it had?
Reading: What have you read?
Evaluation: What conclusions can you draw?
It becomes SHARED when you add a defensible decision

4. What about the person being assessed?
Seeing: What have they seen?
Hearing: What have they heard?
Action:
Reading: Have they read your assessment? What do they think?
Evaluation: How will they evaluate the social work experience? (Emotions – how do they feel about it?)
WHAT WILL THEY DO AS A RESULT?

5. STUDENT
PRACTICE EDUCATOR
SEEING
What does the student see on placement?
What will the PE see of the student? (Direct Observations)
HEARING
What will the student hear on placement? From who?
What will the PE hear? (Conversations with the student, Feedback from others)
ACTION
What will the student get the opportunity to do on placement?
What will the PE need to do?
READING
What will the student read?
Are you reading – the student’s recording, reflections…
EVALUATION
How will the student evaluate the placement experience?
How will you evaluate the student’s practice?
LEARNING STRATEGIES
ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
It becomes SHARED when you add a defensible decision

6. Mapping the journey
Lester (1999) likened competence based assessment in practice learning to the student following a map. Whereas a holistic approach to assessment introduces the idea that the student is the map maker.

7. Seeing the student as the “map maker”
The student needs to know where they are expected to get to (the destination) but they should be the one who decides how best to get there. The assessment should focus not only on whether they reached the destination – but also on the journey they took and how they reflect on it.
Ongoing CPD: Professional Development Plans (PDP) provide the map for the journey and reflective logs provide a kind of travel journal – exploring how the map worked. Evidence is like the souvenirs you pick up along the way!

8. “Whilst it was useful to think about my own career journey, I think perhaps the main aspect of learning was seeing my work with service users as a journey … I know it sounds silly but it has helped me to really recognise that service users are not cases”
“It’s really helped me to recognise how far I have come and to understand how best to plan the next steps of my journey…”
Mapping the journey
Developing creativity
Encouraging direct work skills
Promoting self awareness
Supporting resilience
Building support networks
Revisiting professional core

9. “This has made me cry, with a little bit of hope
“This has made me cry, with a little bit of hope. May all professionals hold onto these principles.”

10. “Mapping out a route with bumps and bridges and twists and turns felt like a very visual way to show the road to the present and the path to future, without needing hundreds of words. In many ways it has helped me to see beyond words.
As a student thinking about my learning as a journey has really helped me. I find myself on a journey of reflection and self-discovery. A journey with a couple of forks in the road, a couple of temporary stop signs, a few signposts here and there and excitingly no end destination yet.
We make journeys all the time but how often do we stop and think about the distance travelled?”

11. Practice learning is the treasure of professional training
X marks the spot
Practice learning is the treasure of professional training
Placements are all about the X!
Praxis
Complexity
Reflexivity

12. Reflexivity Building on reflection towards reflexivity
Importance of reflexivity clarified in the post qualifying standards for social work supervisors in adult social care
SHARE :
What do you see in the word reflexivity?
Have you heard any similar words?

13. Reflexivity Reflexology
SHARE the word…
Reflexivity
Look closer

14. MAPPING CONNECTIVITY

15. Reflexivity
Reflexive
Reflexion
Complexity

16. RefleXivity
RefleXive
RefleXion
CompleXity

17. LOOK AGAIN Reflexivity EI emotional intelligence
X marks the spot
The treasure of social work lies around the way that we see the individual in the context of their environment and we work with them to develop personalised maps for their unique journeys
So reflexive placements should see the student in the context of the placement, working with them to develop personalised maps for their unique learning journeys
EI emotional intelligence
I Individual (self awareness)
(Internal factors)
E environment (External factors)

18. Supervision passports
The centrality of supervision in practice learning– there is no journey without it.
At least you can’t get very far without it!

19. Advice on passport photos…
We must allow space for discussion about the emotional context of our practice in supervision. It needs to provide a “safe place” for learning.
(Algerian Embassy passport photo advice)

21. And the weather is………
SCORCHIO ! ! ! !

22. SUNSHINE
What went well?
What are you most proud of?

23. RAIN What didn’t go so well?
What improvements could you make to your practice?

24. LIGHTNING
What surprises were there?

25. FOG What couldn’t you see? Where did you get lost?
When and how did it clear?

26. Now I see the weather model differently!
SNOW
What might you be able to see differently?
Now I see the weather model differently!

27. We are all on a never ending journey towards reflexivity
Sometimes the most difficult roads lead to the very best views
A range of practical tools can support the learner in their travels:
Passports
Suitcases
Postcards
Trip advisor
(and support the practice educator in writing their reports!)
Pictorial / analogy based techniques can work well in practice learning especially in developing reflection, creativity and resilience