The looking back series — reflections with Dr Lewis Barrett-Rodger

This piece was originally published on my personal WordPress site.

This post is part of The Looking Back Series, a set of reflective writings that consider how professional and personal experience can illuminate educational practice and research. In this instalment, I revisit key moments of professional growth and intellectual development, exploring how retrospective reflection can support more grounded and authentic approaches to pedagogical practice.

Rather than presenting a polished argument or a final claim, the piece embraces writing as a mode of inquiry — a way of making sense of where we’ve been in order to understand where we’re going. This aligns with broader themes in my work on phenomenological approaches to educational experience, where past and present are in conversation, and where insight is shaped over time rather than imposed in a moment.

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The Looking Back Series — Dr Lewis Barrett-Rodger