Campus Session 17/02/2020- Challenge Your Assumptions

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Since beginning this course I have annotated my module handbook, been reading research material, blogging, starting suggested tasks and mainly trying to get my head around the course. So I decided the best next step for me was to attend the campus session to discuss my thoughts and ideas to see if I was heading down the correct route.

This course is so reflective and therefore with no definitive “Yes or No” answer it can make you question your approach to subjects! Thankfully I came away from this session sensing I was on the right path! I have a long way to go but I now feel confident in my steps.


A sticky topic for me has been Ethics and applying them to my practice. What I discovered is that instead of questioning the situation and asking ‘WHY?’ I was just trying to find answers. We need to question the assumptions we make instead of finding reasons or excuses. It is all about the approach rather than the thing. The questions we ask and the reflection we make are what create the ethical consideration. It is not the answers!


As a society we are encouraged to make judgements and opinions about everything- but are we just making judgements from things we assume? Do we know why we are assuming these things? As a society are we so quick to jump to an assumption that we detriment our journey by obstructing our learning process. Lorri Myers when discussing this issue in her book Targeting Success, said ‘Don’t Build roadblocks out of assumptions (Myers, 2011)’. We need to question more! We need to keep our learning ‘roads’ clear in order to develop more as teachers.


Another interesting point that was raised was about being biased. Is there such a thing as being biased? There is no neutral ground when it comes to this. Everyone has judgements so there is no way that we can be unbiased! This again comes back to making assumptions!

As a society let’s stop assuming and instead, I challenge you to question more!

Bibliography



Myers, L. (2011). Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace. Leda Publishing Corp.

Comments

  1. Paul Flannigan20 February 2020 at 07:06

    Hi Emma,

    Thank you for posting about the Campus session, it is greatly appreciated as I could not get down to London, this time around.

    I have found your blog extremely beneficial as I have been somewhat lost in my research with 'Ethics' and your blog has given me some more ideas on how to view it especially when you said '...its all about the approach rather than the thing.'

    I am hoping to do a blog on 'Ethics' in a couple of days once I have researched further and look forward to your comments.

    Thanks again,
    Paul

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  2. Alys May-James23 February 2020 at 09:01

    Hi Emma,
    This was really helpful as I couldn't go to the campus session. Its so true, we assume so much without even realising it! Doing this course I am definitely trying to question more, but it is very much out of my comfort zone of what I'm used to. The biased point is interesting too, as we are all our own people with our own experiences so then we are going to be biased towards something because of our past experiences.
    Thank you!
    Alys

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  3. Jen Cooper24 February 2020 at 19:26

    Having been unable to attend the campus session it was great to read your blog. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas. Questioning myself and my practice since starting this course is something I'm consciously doing more of and like you mention - the course is so reflective there is no definite "yes or no" answer.

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