Becoming reflective practitioners through community based planning projects

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dc.contributor.authorFitzsimons, Jeanette
dc.contributor.editorSupple, Brionyen
dc.contributor.editorDelahunty, Tomen
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-05T09:47:06Z
dc.date.available2020-11-05T09:47:06Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractInspired by the influential ‘reflective practitioner’ ideas of Donald Schön (1983), there is an established pedagogical tradition in the University College Cork, Centre for Planning Education & Research, in active learning, and using real projects with real clients as a teaching methodology. In semester two 2019, the first year Masters in Planning students engaged with the Glounthaune community to identify the community’s values and aspirations. Concurrently, the second year students prepared a masterplan for a new town centre, drawing on field work, research and findings from the aforementioned community engagement process. Personal reflection was formally embedded in both processes: students considered their professional and personal skills including working together, dealing with communities; active listening and thinking creatively. These reflections deepened the students’ learning through revisiting the experiences guided by a framework of prompted questions. In her discussion of the challenges in developing excellence in planners, Reeves (2009) insists that ‘Planners need to demonstrate their ability to transform understanding into practical and achievable outcomes… Employers want to see more than credentials; they want to see people demonstrating competence. One’s ability to do a job depends on knowledge, skills and qualities.’ Working on real projects with local communities while using reflection-on-action (Schön, 1983) to revisit the experience further develops their competencies.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationFitzsimons, J. (2019) 'Becoming reflective practitioners through community based planning projects', Learning Connections 2019: Spaces, People, Practice, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 5-6 December, pp. 109-113. doi: 10.33178/LC.2019.23en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/LC.2019.23
dc.identifier.endpage113
dc.identifier.startpage109
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10712
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.publisherNational Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Educationen
dc.rights© 2019, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectReflective practitioneren
dc.subjectActive learningen
dc.subjectGlounthauneen
dc.subjectCommunity engagementen
dc.subjectPersonal reflectionen
dc.titleBecoming reflective practitioners through community based planning projectsen
dc.typeConference itemen
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