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This module provides opportunities to identify and examine the core values, vulnerabilities and professional commitments of the role of the teacher, along with seeding a rooted authentic critical reflection and exploring it’s impact on lifelong teaching and learning through a creative arts-based approach.

This elective will focus on exploring and developing the fundamental elements of critical reflective practice for the student teacher through active engagement and research-informed creative arts-based responses which can be directly applied to professional and pedagogical practice. ABR responses are designed to stimulate and accommodate a deeper, more sensory exploration of personal and professional reflection, along with cultivating an understanding of the unique nature of the role of the teacher which is vital for fostering a steadfast, sustainable approach to critical reflection and a commitment to lifelong teaching and learning. As part of the exploration of teacher identity and in augmenting a robust critical reflective practice for life, student teachers will engage in examination of one the core conditions of teaching; that of vulnerability. Understanding the well-documented micro-political reactionary strategies to vulnerability in teaching, as well as the positive impact of vulnerability as a practice in creating trusting learning environments and promoting connection, can equip student teachers with the ability to adapt within every day challenges and to embody the phenomenon of the teacher as a perpetual learner and reflective practitioner.