SO-601 Reflective Processes in Professional Practice (Autumn 2022)
- ECTS Credits:
- 5
- Responsible department:
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Course Leaders:
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- Solveig Botnen Eide
- Cecilie Revheim
- Lecture Semester:
- Autumn and Spring
- Teaching language:
- English and/or Norwegian depending on course participants
- Duration:
- ½ year
Table of contents
The course is connected to the following study programs
Teaching language
Recommended previous knowledge
Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
After completing the course, students should have advanced knowledge of
- ethical issues in professional work.
- contextual and critical processes in professional work
Skills:
After completing the course, students should be able to
- identify, emphasize and analyze ethical dimensions of professional work
- recognize and reflect on contextualized (-local, national, and international) understandings and challenges within professional work
- apply concepts and theories in respectively health, education, welfare, and social work research in fruitful ways
Competences:
After completing the course, students should:
- Demonstrate substantial scholarly and professional integrity and sustained commitment to the development of new ideas or processes at the forefront of health, education, welfare, or social work.
- Be able to identify new and relevant ethical challenges and conduct their research with academic integrity.
Contents
Professional work within health, education, welfare, and social work develops within local, national, and international contexts. Reflexivity is to see and understand oneself within a context. Through this course the students will develop their ability to reflect, theorize and understand themselves and professional work. Students will be encouraged to develop and problematize their subjectivity in relation to their background and professional position, and to explore and challenge different understandings of professionalism. The students will develop a contextual and ethical awareness that can inform their current PhD project.
The aim of the course is to enable participants to strengthen their critical reflection and increase their understanding of interactional, contextualized, situational and collaborative practices. To enhance reflective processes the course will provide knowledge about ethics, contexts, and social interaction.