Reflection & Learning Journey

We are now almost at the close of Unit 3.

All that is left in order for you to complete this Unit, is to finish entering into your learning journal any key reflections and learning that it may have prompted (see the following page for further guided instruction on how to do so).

By way of a re-cap, to assist you with this exercise, in this Unit we have dwelled on the meaning of care-full scholarship. We have done so by:

• inviting you to share your own impression of what it involves and stands for based on your perspective and experiences to date, and,
• inviting a number of guest contributors to do the same, some of whom are already very familiar with FCE scholarship, others who are instead able to respond intuitively to this question based on their life experience and guiding value systems

In addition to thinking about care-full scholarship in totality, guided by our care-full scholarship framework, we have also explored many of its component parts across a number of different realms.

And, in accordance with the importance of focusing not only on the role of the individual, we have also begun considering how particular institutional cultures and environments impact upon the practicing of good, or indeed, bad care.

A key dimension of our framework which we have not directly covered in this current Unit is self-care. This is because self-care forms the focus of Unit 4, the next Unit of this course.