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Brookfield's critically reflective lens three: our colleagues' experiences

Produced by Marion Waite, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University

This is based on the perspective that as teachers we need to feel credible in the eyes of learners. There can be a real fear about being found out as an imposter, many people may be able to identify with this, especially in the early days of being a lecturer. Brookfield (2005) suggests that by creating safe spaces where we can have critical conversations with our colleagues we may be enabled to ‘check', ‘reframe' and broaden our practices.

In this audio recording you can hear a critical conversation between Clare Butler who holds a senior practice lectureship as a new lecturer in health and life sciences at Oxford Brookes University and Sue Schutz an experienced lecturer who works in the same department. Clare is using the lens of Sue's experience in order to create more effective online discussion forums within her teaching.