Marianne Savory writes for Times Higher Education
Marianne Savory, Senior Teaching Fellow at Leeds University Business School, recently shared her insights in Times Higher Education on fostering self-reflection as part of student inductions.
The article, “Welcome! Now what?” highlights how reflection on goals and motivations from the outset can lead to better student outcomes and personal growth.
This approach, embraced at Leeds, encourages students to continually adapt and grow both academically and professionally, shaping their lifelong learning journeys.
Through an introductory assignment, there is an emphasis on the importance of self-reflection within the broader context of the skills students will be developing throughout the programme, and it is explicit in its intention.
It might be easy to assume students will be practising self-reflection before, during and after their studies. However, my experience suggests this is not likely for all students and perhaps less likely for those who have previously studied in different educational environments, which may have been not pedagogically designed in this way.
