Assignment outline

Write a reflective essay about your personal learning
journey in this module. Describe how activities in this
module (simulation, case discussions, readings, guest
lectures, …) helped you to understand what strategy is
about. Try also to identify gaps in your knowledge and
what you still have to learn.

2,000 words (+/-10%) excluding references.
Deadline 3 April 2023

20%

What do I need to remember?

1. write it in the first person – it is about your
learning

2. you can structure how you would like: e.g.
by term, by topic, by activity

3. do not simply create a list of what you did..
But reflect on what you learned, will take
forwards..

4. consider reflective words/sentences to
ensure you show your learning

Critical thinking toolkit

What sources could I consider?

Lectures

Workshops

Reading / text book

Videos

Simulation

Guest Speakers

Networking events

Own reading / research

Academic models introduced

Academic articles read

Practitioner articles read

Where will did get practitioner
insights?

Own experience

Lecturers

Guests – Bryan, Aaron, Zayd, Yulija, Sir Trevor
Phillips

Case studies

Networking events

Other modules

Case studies

Approach to
identifying themes

TAGs

Alternative
approach to themes

The paper

Using multiple sources explain the impact of
your learning –

Write you paper reviewing the themes and
your learning

What is the theory?

A useful tool to help you learning from a situation is the
critical reflection model. This is based on research by Kolb
(1984) which suggests that for learning to be successful we
need to move through a learning cycle which involves four
stages:

Having a learning experience (experience stage);

Reflecting on it (review stage);

making sense of it (concluding stage) and finally

taking action to apply what we have learned (action stage).

This model can be very useful to help you learn from any
particular situation, for example from feedback from a very
good piece of work (so that you can repeat your success).

So..

What was the particular learning experience?
(the talk on… from…, the chapter on…)

What is my review of it? (was it
useful/relevant/clear to me?)

In conclusion.. Will it have any impact for me
going forwards? (did it change my thinking?)

What action might I take? (do it again, change
the way I did it, learn more about it..)