Emotion as reflexive practice: A new discourse for feedback practice and research.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Like medicine and health care, feedback is a practice imbued with emotions: saturated with feelings relevant to one's identity and status within a given context. Often this emotional dimension of feedback is cast as an impediment to be ignored or managed. Such a perspective can be detrimental to feedback practices as emotions are fundamentally entwined with learning. In this critical review, we ask: What are the discourses of emotion in the feedback literature and what 'work' do they do?

Methods

We conducted a critical literature review of emotion and feedback in the three top journals of the field: Academic Medicine, Medical Education and Advances in Health Sciences Education. Analysis was informed by a Foucauldian critical discourse approach and involved ident

SUBMITTER: Ajjawi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9299671 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature