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You should have a good honours degree (2:1 or above) or masters degree or equivalent in the relevant subject area.
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The
school welcomes practitioners from across diverse professions to study for a
MPhil/ PhD - ‘Being and becoming
the practitioner they desire to be’ using the methodology of narrative as a journey
of self-inquiry and transformation towards realising one’s vision as a lived
reality [1]
This innovative and creative methodology has been developed through the work of
Professor Christopher Johns to enable practitioners to learn through their
everyday lived experiences as systematic self-inquiry over at least three
years.
The journey is presented as a coherent and reflexive narrative.
This reflective approach is influenced by critical social science,
hermeneutics, feminism, narrative inquiry, performance ethnography, chaos
theory, ancient wisdom sources, aesthetics, and autoethnography.
It is a personal vision quest. You would join a community of inquiry of practitioners and supervisors who meet every four weeks.
Relevant specialist supervisors will join the group as appropriate as will
local supervisory arrangements for overseas students to supplement electronic
supervision.
The school holds two three-day block schools yearly [currently March and July] that overseas students unable to join the four-weekly sessions are required to attend besides the annual International reflective practice conference.
[1] This research approach was first published in Guided Reflection: Advancing Practice (Johns 2002). A second edition will be published in 2009.
Research» Institute for Health Research» Reflective Practice Forum» School of guided reflection and narrative inquiry
