Apply Critical Leadership Studies
Assessment Three – Reflective Piece
AIM
The aim of this assessment is to critically reflect on:
- How you will apply Critical Leadership Studies to inform your personal approach to leadership, and
- What your leadership approach will
Assessment Three – Reflective Piece
DESCRIPTION
Considering ALL Topic Content and particularly the Critical Leadership Studies, create a reflective essay or creative multi-media equivalent to address the following questions:
1. Critically Think, Reflect and Explain how you will engage with Critical Leadership Studies to inform your leadership
2. Critically Think, Reflect and Explain your approach (how you intent to practice) to leadership as a result of completing this
Assessment Three – Reflective Piece
Your submission can be either:
- a Reflective Essay, or
- a Multi-media equivalent. The choice is
The critical element is that the submission accurately reflects your response to the questions, demonstrates that you have critically reflected on the subject content, applied it to a context that you are familiar with, and discussed how you will ‘live’ (practice) your approach to leadership into the future.
Assessment Three – Useful Information
What is Reflective Writing?
- Reflective writing aims to get you to think about and understand your learning experiences. It encourages Tacit (unarticulated, ‘as yet unspoken’) knowledge to become Explicit (captured in words, writing and drawings, knowledge that has possibilities of being universal, supporting the capacity to act across contexts)
- ‘Tacit and explicit knowledge interact so that an individual might, for example, shift understanding between a task and the tools, reflect on his or her own experiences, use language to remind him or herself of what he or she already knows, thematise certain circumstances and discuss these with others’ Tsoukas, (2003) p
- Specifically, you will be reflecting on your thinking, before, during and after the writing, pondering on progress and how to improve, Silby and Watts (2015) 803.
Assessment Three – Reflective Essay
What is a Reflective Essay?
A reflective essay is an essay in which the writer examines his or her experiences. The writer then writes about those experiences, exploring how he or she has changed, developed or grown from those experiences.
Here are a few resources:
- A complete guide to writing a reflective essay: https://www.oxbridgeessays.com/blog/complete-guide-to-writing-a- reflective-essay/
- What is a Reflective Essay? – Definition, Format & Examples: https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-a-reflective-essay-definition- format-examples.html How do you write a reflective mp4
- How do you write a reflective essay? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7faxtIY7pQQ
Assessment Three – Multi-media Presentation
What is a Multi-media presentation?
A multimedia presentation is a stand alone presentation that includes information presented with slides, video, or digital representations and includes sound which might be a narrative, music or sound effects.
In short, it’s combining multiple types of media in your presentation. You can use combinations of images, audio, and video to make your point.
Here are a few resources:
- https://business.tutsplus.com/tutorials/what-is-powerpoint-multimedia- presentation–cms-29332
- How to Create a Multimedia PowerPoint Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xaMalJfOhY How to Create a Multimedia PowerPoint mp4
- Multimedia presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/kamalesh2015/multimedia-presentation- 45123014
Assessment Three – Reflective Piece
What does Critically Reflect mean?
Critical reflection is a reasoning process to make meaning of an experience. Critical reflection is descriptive, analytical, and critical, and can be articulated in a number of ways such as in written form, orally, or as an artistic expression.What does critical thinking mean?
The objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement.
What does Explain mean?
Clarify a topic by giving a detailed account as to what is meant by the use of this term in a particular context. To make (an idea or situation) clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts. To be the cause of or motivating factor for. Your writing should have clarity so that complex ideas and practice can be understood, defining key terms where appropriate, and be substantiated with relevant research.