UNHE505 is in part organised around the four ‘lenses’ for critical reflection described by Brookfield, the four lenses being
- your own reflection on your teaching
- student evaluation on learning and teaching
- teacher peers, their experience and advice
- scholarly literature
You may have read some of Brookfield’s book in UNHE500. If you are not familiar with his different perspectives on teaching, please read this one-page summary:
Trevitt, C. (2007). What is critically reflective teaching? (Oxford Learning Institute, University of Oxford)
UNHE505 participants in previous semesters have reported that undertaking a peer review of a colleague’s learning design not only provides the reviewee with an additional perspective on their teaching challenge and design, but also lets the reviewer re-consider their own work. The peer review combines two lenses: the reviewer’s experience and attention, and their use of the relevant literature.
For more on the four lenses, see Brookfield, S. (2017). The four lenses of critical reflection Becoming a critically reflective teacher (2nd Edn), chapter 4, pp. 61-77. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
or see
Introduction to reflection, Brookfield’s lenses, multimedia and further resources
– an extract from an open course on university teaching from Oxford Brookes University. It provides a snapshot example of each of the lenses.