Reflective Learning Journal Part 2- 1008CCJ, Social Problems, Trimester 1 (2023)
Reflective Learning Journal Part 2- 1008CCJ, Social Problems, Trimester 1 (2023)
Due Date: 26 May 2023 - 23.55
Weighting: 25%
Word Length: 2,000 (+/-10%)
Task Description: In this reflective learning journal, you will: describe two key learnings (please choose two for each week from the list provided below) from weeks 6 to 9 of the course. Please draw on the lecture materials and/or what you learnt in tutorials and/or the course readings, and/or other empirical sources and explain why these two key learnings are important for people in the field of criminology, reflect on how these two key learnings have affected you emotionally and intellectually with particular attention paid to positionality (i.e. the link between your biography and the social structure, not your personality, upbringing or position/stance on an issue), explain what insights you have gained from these two key learnings and how they will impact the way you move forward with your academic development and professional growth. You should include the following information for each weeks entry:
Describe two key learnings (please choose two from the list provided below): What did you learn?
Describe the two key learnings that you have chosen (from the list below) no feelings, thoughts, reflections, assumptions or opinions just facts.
Why do you think these two key learnings are important for people in the field of criminology to understand (be specific and detailed)?
Effect: What was the personal effect these two key learnings had on you?
How did they affect you personally? How did you feel? This could be positive or negative. You may have felt overwhelmed, excited, angry, confused, shocked or the opposite.
Consider how your positionality may have influenced how you felt?
Reflect: Reflect on your learning (Here focus on knowledge and understanding leave feelings out of it.)
How did these two key learnings strengthen, confirm, or contradict your prior opinions, knowledge, theories, or understanding?
Consider how your positionality may have influenced your prior opinions, knowledge, theories or understanding around these two key learnings?
Impact: How do you think these two key learnings will impact your future learning/university studies and career development (Be creative and specific here, you can use examples as well)?
Your reflections on each key learning experience will vary in complexity and depth; this means word length per entry will likely vary. This is fine! Remember you have up to 2000 words in total (excluding title page and reference list).
Key Learnings
Only choose two from each week.
Week 6:
Gender and sex
Sexual division of labour
The gendered nature of criminalisation
Patriarchy and gender based oppression
Week 7:
Transmisia
Cisgender socialisation
The othering of trans people
Queer criminology and what research in this space has shown us about: victimisation, criminalisation and experiences of criminal (in)justice
Week 8:
Ableist privilege
Understanding what disability encompasses i.e. a broad spectrum of forms of embodiment and modes of thought
The criminalisation of distress
The ways in which the discourse of medicalisation has been used by the carceral state to traumatise and harm people defined as having a disability
Week 9:
Adultism
Youth participatory approach
Elder abuse
Intersectionality & older prisoners
Reflective Journal Template
*All written assessments, citations and referencing must comply with APA 7th Edition standards. Visit course site and apa.org for more information. Make sure to use double spacing in all text. This example shows the structure we are looking for, create your own document based on this.
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Grades
Criterion 7 6 5 3-4 1-2
Describe
Marked out of 10 Strong and clear description of what was learned and why it is important for a criminologist to understand
Fairly strong and clear description of what was learned and why it is important for a criminologist to understand Sound description of what was learned and why it is important for a criminologist to understand Poor description of what was learned and why it is important for a criminologist to understand Failure to adequately describe of what was learned and why it is important for a criminologist to understand
Effect
Marked out of 5 Strong recognition of emotions and ability to understand affect in terms of positionality Very good recognition of emotions and ability to understand effect in terms of positionality Good recognition of emotions and ability to situate positionality Limited exploration of emotions and restricted ability to situate positionality Emotions not explored and unable to situate positionality
Reflect
Marked out of 5 Clearly describes how what was learned confirmed or contradicted prior knowing and provides a strong reflection on positionality
Very good description on how what was learned confirmed or contradicted prior knowing and also on positionality Sound explanation on how what was learned confirmed or contradicted prior knowing and also on positionality Limited explanation on how what was learned confirmed or contradicted prior knowing and on positionality No explanation on how what was learned confirmed or contradicted prior knowing and nothing about positionalityImpact
Marked out of 3 Outstanding discussion on the possible future impacts of the learning experiences Very good discussion on the possible future impacts of the learning experiences Sound discussion on the possible future impacts of the learning experiences Limited discussion on the possible future impacts of the learning experiences No discussion on the possible future impacts of the learning experiences
Clarity of expression and referencing
Marked out of 2 Very fluent writing style, and grammar and spelling accurateReferencing is consistently accurate Language fluent, grammar and spelling accurateReferencing is mainly accurate Language mainly fluent, grammar and spelling mainly accurateReferencing is mainly accurate Meaning apparent, but language is not always fluent, grammar and/or spelling contain errorsSome attempt at referencing Meaning unclear and/or grammar and/or spelling contain frequent errorsReferencing is absent/unsystematic
