Pushing the Boundaries of Reflection

The Answer’s on a postcard

Authors

  • Mark Pope Centre for Languages, Culture and Communications, Imperial College London, UK
  • Elizabeth Hauke Centre for Languages, Culture and Communications, Imperial College London, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6397-9103
  • Nadia Davis Centre for Languages, Culture and Communications, Imperial College London, UK
  • Rasika Kale Centre for Languages, Culture and Communications, Imperial College London, UK
  • Anastasia Kolesnikova Centre for Languages, Culture and Communications, Imperial College London, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1227-1580
  • Ting Lee Centre for Languages, Culture and Communications, Imperial College London, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9403-9069

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i2.1245

Keywords:

reflection, reflective practitioners, arts-based research, co-operative inquiry, multi-modal communications

Abstract

This article presents a correspondence project completed during the 2019-2020 academic year. To encourage reflection and create divergent modes of expression, teaching staff paired undergraduate students across modules and gave them a blank postcard each week. The students’ brief was an open one - to reflect on their educational experience surrounding the modules with textual and visual representations.  The emotionality and expressions of identity that flowed through the postcards were striking.  This lent itself to a personally impassioned criticality, meaningful dialogue and more holistic observations on how learning took place.

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Author Biographies

Mark Pope, Centre for Languages, Culture and Communications, Imperial College London, UK

Teaching Fellow

Change Makers, Imperial Horizons,

Centre for Languages, Culture and Communications

Elizabeth Hauke, Centre for Languages, Culture and Communications, Imperial College London, UK

Principal Teaching Fellow

Change Makers, Imperial Horizons

Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication

 

Nadia Davis, Centre for Languages, Culture and Communications, Imperial College London, UK

Nadia Davis received her Bachelor's and Master's degree from Imperial College London where she specialised in Molecular and Cellular Biology. Whilst completing her undergraduate studies she took part in the 'Dear Change Maker' postcard project to explore visual methods of learning.

Rasika Kale, Centre for Languages, Culture and Communications, Imperial College London, UK

Rasika Kale is currently pursuing her Masters of Science in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her professional interests include exploring the nexus of housing, transportation, and food systems as drivers of urban health disparities, along with qualitative and community-based methods for health program delivery.

Anastasia Kolesnikova, Centre for Languages, Culture and Communications, Imperial College London, UK

Anastasia Kolesnikova is an incoming PhD student at the University of Southampton, specializing in crop improvement and food security research. She has previously received a bachelor's from Imperial College London. 

Ting Lee, Centre for Languages, Culture and Communications, Imperial College London, UK

Ting received an undergraduate degree in Biotechnology from Imperial College London is now pursuing a DPhil in Engineering at the University of Oxford with a focus on control of microbial communities. He is interested in communities (human and microbial) and enjoys writing about both.

'Final Piece of the Jigsaw', by Raskia (illustration of jigsaw pieces)

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Published

2024-04-26

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2024): Spring 2024

Section

Articles

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Copyright (c) 2024 Dr Mark Pope, Dr Elizabeth Hauke, Nadia Davis, Rasika Kale, Anastasia Kolesnikova, Ting Lee

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