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In this chapter, a reimagined conception of reflective practice is used to think about and improve our practice as teachers committed to addressing issues of social justice. Co-/autoethnography is described as an approach that utilizes insights from Schön through a poststructural feminist lens. This perspective invites a notion of reflective practice that returns us to Schön’s swamplands where reflection is at its most generative and effective.
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Coia, L., Taylor, M. (2017). Let’s Stay in the Swamp: Poststructural Feminist Reflective Practice. In: Brandenburg, R., Glasswell, K., Jones, M., Ryan, J. (eds) Reflective Theory and Practice in Teacher Education. Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices, vol 17. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3431-2_3
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