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Gordon, Clare 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0183-1845
(2015)
Reflection on my transition from expert clinician to novice midwifery lecturer.
MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, 25 (3).
pp. 283-285.
ISSN 0961-5555
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Abstract
As a specialist midwife in my own field, my change in career pathway has left me as a novice once again. Unlike Berhanu (2006), and as a midwife, reflective practice is something that is embedded in me; this has given me the ability to learn, analyse and change through my experiences. Jones (2012) recognised the challenges faced by new educators; like Jones (2012), I underestimated the impact of the transition from expert practitioner to novice teacher. Throughout my career as a student midwife and clinician, and in my present role as an academic, I have repeatedly returned to use Kolb’s (1984) experiential learning cycle as a tool to reflect on my learning. Kolb (1984) writes how understanding is influenced by experience; in essence, experiential learning is learning from experiences. The experiential learning cycle combines existing knowledge and previous experience to inform learning. It draws on ideas and understanding from an experience and uses the conclusions from the learning to shape, test out and inform new experiences in new situations. My experiences as a learner have undoubtedly influenced the way in which I teach and using the cycle of learning enables me to better reflect on my experiences and learning.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Novice lecturer; expert clinician |
| Subjects: | Education > Academic identity Education > Higher education Education > Teaching and learning Medicine and health > Midwifery |
| Depositing User: | Clare Gordon |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jun 2017 13:12 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2024 15:52 |
| URI: | https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/3431 |
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