Debriefing interviews and coaching conversations: Strategies to promote student reflexivity and action
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Without conscious will and engagement in critical reflexivity as a process of growth and \nlearning in research, students remain unaware of their subjective biases and the effect \nof bias on the inquiry. A qualitative, exploratory, single descriptive case study was used \nto explore and describe the operationalisation of debriefing interviews and coaching \nconversations as strategies to promote student reflexivity and action in postgraduate \nsupervision practice. Two female Master of Technology (Somatology) students were \npurposively selected. Data were collected through in-depth semi-structured debriefing \ninterviews, coaching conversations and semi-structured naïve sketches. Data analysis \nfollowed a thematic coding approach. It was found that the strategies of debriefing \ninterviews and coaching conversations promote self-awareness and methodological \nawareness, transformation, learning and support, and increase students’ capability to \nact and react more quickly to research challenges. However, bracketing of personal \nepistemological beliefs and ethical reasoning remain a challenge.
Authors: Jeanette Maritz, Karien Jooste
Institutions: University of Johannesburg, University of the Western Cape
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2105959110