Citation
(2007), "Special Issue on Critically reflective practice in HRD", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 31 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/jeit.2007.00331baa.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Special Issue on Critically reflective practice in HRD
Special Issue on Critically reflective practice in HRD
Abstracts are invited for a special issue of the Journal of European Industrial Training on the theme of "Critically reflective practice in HRD", edited by Dr Clare Rigg, Institute of Technology, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland, Professor Jim Stewart, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University and Professor Kiran Trehan, Business School, University of Central England, Birmingham.
The purpose of this special issue is to explore the challenges and opportunities for expediting critical reflection in human resource development. The special issue seeks to provide a forum for those who have personally engaged in critical reflection or who have used critical reflection in their work as HRD practitioners, in organization development programmes or otherwise, to share their work with others and discuss issues, insights and implications. The editors encourage submissions that make clear the context and value the subjective experience of participants, but at the same time are critical and reflexive in their approach and content and firmly grounded in the relevant literature.Critical reflection has been gaining advocates in recent years as a response to the critiques of reflection for being purely instrumental, overly individualized, or for serving narrowly defined purposes of individual growth. Critical reflection, however, is a broadly interpreted term, with meanings that range from questioning assumptions and presuppositions, through to more explicit engagement in a process of drawing from critical and critical perspectives to make connections between learning and work experiences, so as to understand and change personal, interpersonal and organisational practices.
Authors are invited to submit an abstract covering, but not restricted to, one or more of the themes below:
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Being critically reflective - participants' stories.
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Encouraging critical reflection - in-company developers' perspective.
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"Holding the space" - facilitating critical reflection.
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Engaging in critical reflection - developing professional practice
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Critical reflection as "organized practice" for developing learning in organizations.
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Theory underlying critical reflection.
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Models of application - e.g. action learning, coaching, mentoring, journals, action research, 1-1 development, team learning, communities of practice, group relations conferences, individual, collective, public reflection.
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Questioning the use of "critical reflection".
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Emotions and power in the employment of critical reflection.
Submission detailsProposals should comprise an abstract of c1,000 words, emailed to clare.rigg@staff.ittralee.ie as a MS Word file to be received by 1 March 2007.
Authors selected to submit full papers for peer reviewing will be notified by 1 April 2007. Full papers will be due by 31 July 2007. Following review those selected for the special issue will be required to make revisions and submit their final paper by December 1 2007. Papers should adhere to the journal's "style and format" guide for authors.
TimelineSubmission of proposal - March 1, 2007.Decision to request full papers - April 1, 2007.Submission of full paper - July 3, 2007.Refereeing complete - September 15, 2007.Revise and resubmit final paper - December 31, 2007.