What is it about?
Reflective writing is a staple of many university programmes, yet not all students who master the genre adequately derive the reputed benefits. This paper explores strategies that students deploy in reflective writing, including a “performance of penance”, to understand why this might be.
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Why is it important?
Reflective writing is widely used in universities. If not all students are deriving the purported benefits, despite appearing to master the genre adequately, we need to understand why and address the problem so that all students are able to benefit.
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This page is a summary of: Penitent performance, reconstructed rumination or induction: student strategies for the deployment of reflection in an extended degree programme, Higher Education Research & Development, January 2020, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2020.1712678.
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