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Reflective practice or poetic mindfulness: a role for social poetics in constructing and performing futures

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Reflective Practice has been dominated for the last 25 years by an experiential school as typified by Kolb (1984. Experiential Learning. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall). This paper suggests that there are significant problems with an approach to considering futures that is based on ‘knowledge’ of the past, identification of ongoing cause–effect relations and individual agency. Alternative, Social Constructionist premises are discussed and a ‘Social Poetics’ (Shotter, 1996. “Social Construction as social poetics: Oliver Sacks and the case of Dr P.” In Reconstructing the Psychological Subject, edited by B. Bayer and J. Shotter. London: Sage) is offered as a mindfulness that foregrounds moment-by-moment relations in which new realities are improvised. The use of different poetic forms to shape a poetic mindfulness is proposed and three advantages of such a practice are suggested. First, that a poetic mindfulness can interrupt limiting ‘thinking habits’. Secondly, it foregrounds the creativity of ongoing relations and, thirdly, it provides an alternative to simple cause–effect relations by foregrounding social improvisation.

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  • Caroline Ramsey, 2018. "Reflective practice or poetic mindfulness: a role for social poetics in constructing and performing futures," Action Learning: Research and Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(2), pages 90-101, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:alresp:v:15:y:2018:i:2:p:90-101
    DOI: 10.1080/14767333.2018.1464709
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