Nye, Adele

Clark, Jennifer

Bidwell, Pam

Deschamps, Briahannon

Frickman, Lisa

Green, Jennifer

2016

This paper discusses the way in which postmodern emergence was used to assist a group of undergraduate students come to new understandings of research practice as they participated in a reflective component of an Undergraduate Research Summer School. Students were encouraged to 'write the (researcher) self' through a collaborative writing group based on the theoretical and pedagogical work of Somerville. Postmodern emergence highlights three stages of learning; firstly, assigning time for wondering, then a liminal space for becoming and finally an opportunity for generating new knowledge. This article is both the tangible product of this emergence reflective writing process and a recommendation about the capacity of undergraduate students to engage with their own professionalisation and meaning-making.

Reflective Practice, 17(3), p. 257-269

1470-1103

1462-3943

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19110

en

Routledge

Writing the (researcher) self: reflective practice and undergraduate research

Journal Article

Publication