Coming from a military culture feedback was incorporated into our daily missions
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1.My disposition that I will be to embrace the feedback. I have wiped my mental slate clean, and I consider myself a sponge to learning. I do not know, and I am coming into this program with the understand that I do not know, but I am willing to learn and to apply the information that I receive that would make me better. Coming from a military culture, feedback was incorporated into our daily missions, from combat training to presenting the unit commander with information in our briefs, feedback was an essential part of our military professional development. Feedback can be a catalyst for growth provided that the communication between provider and receiver is clear, constructive, and put into practice. The same goes for peer-feedback. In peer-feedback, students are reviewing (formative) or assessing (summative) each other’s work. Learning from and with each other enables students to reflect on their work and compare it with their peers (Kasch, Van Rosmalen, Henderikx, & Kalz, 2021). Now, in saying that I am open to corrective criticism as long as it is not demeaning in nature. I have had leaders as well as people in charge that would give feedback and criticism, but would talk down to them, humiliating them. I found that to be disrespectful and unprofessional. As long as those who are providing feedback doing it in a manner that is not humiliating in nature, I would not have a problem, but if I felt otherwise, I would address the issue. I believe that those who are providing should make receiving the feedback motivating for learners to want to go above and beyond what is expected.
2.Of the eight doctoral dispositions outlined in our course text, perhaps the one that is most key to the development of a scholarly researcher is that which requires us to be “receptive to the feedback, analysis, and constructive critique from peers and faculty within (our) scholarly community” (Elsasser et al., 2020, Academic Responsibility section). I find that it is easier to accept feedback and criticism when I am not confident in the material I am presenting or writing on. When the content is something I feel adept at, it is more surprising and frustrating to receive critique. However, when becoming a scholarly researcher, this is a belief I will need to reverse in order to be successful. Currently, I desire feedback for every word I write, positive or negative. As I continue down the path toward dissertation, and become more confident in my position, I would like to accept feedback with the same voracity I do now.The successful scholar accepts feedback even when they are in strong command of the content. Emmio?lu, et al., (2017) reported that those students who received the most feedback from instructors and peers within their learning communities were the most successful and experienced the least amount of stress in their doctoral courses. I would hypothesize that many doctoral students are much like myself. At the beginning of our courses, when we are feeling the most like impostors, unsure of ourselves and perhaps timid, is when we are most likely to seek and receive much needed feedback. This condition allows us to be receptive to receiving and engaging with the feedback we receive. Ultimately, when we are more confident in our role as scholar and researcher, we will also be acclimated to receiving feedback having been in the practice throughout our writing process. Perhaps this was the consideration in place when Noonan (2015) designed a Doctoral Pedagogy and established the reception of feedback as a core strategy in developing successful doctoral students. The numerous studies and articles we have read thus far in this course have convinced me that the science on the importance of feedback throughout the research process is solid. I even chose the importance of feedback as a theme in my Synthesis Paper. I believe this evidence will help me learn to value feedback above hurt feelings as I progress through this program.
3.The best way for me to answer these questions, is to share my growth, perspective, and walk with God. As I have matured more in my walk with God, everything I do now is to honor and please Him. I Corinthians 10:31, “therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God”, and II Timothy 2:15, “be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, righty diving the word of truth”. Se non é vero, é ben trovato. This traditional Italian saying, which means something like ?If it isn\’t true, it ought to be,\” sums up the greatest temptation for researchers, as researchers (Wheeler, 2017). We have a professional responsibility to find truth wherever it may be found. For me, these two scriptures will influence my role as a researcher, because my perspective is everything that I do is to please God. As a man of God, if I am to preach Christ and to live my best example of a Christian, then my work should match my faith. A researcher that has a good spiritual foundation will exemplify the values that is evident in daily life behaviors as the research principles that becomes the authentic character of the researcher (Syihabuddin, 2017).What I like about GCU worldview is that is a missional community of diverse people that has come together to carry out a mission that is focused on following Jesus in a world that is trying to make Jesus obsolete. To have a curriculum that incorporates scriptures motivates me in knowing that I am part of carrying out GCU’s mission.
4.This is a very loaded question for me, and it made me take a step back and internalize myself and what I genuinely believe. I have struggled with finding my beliefs since I started my undergraduate at a Christian University with no prior knowledge of religion. After learning in great detail about the old and new testaments, I began to doubt my previous beliefs and then questioned my new assumptions. I have always been back and forth, and I have not put my finger on my true beliefs yet, but I hope to in the near future. With that said, being in the military, I was surrounded by an enormous and diverse group of individuals with vastly different worldviews and religious ones. I quickly learned how to support everyone and their beliefs because we all come from different backgrounds and have other stories to tell.
Worldview is robust when it comes to individuals\’ influences on research. First, their backgrounds and beliefs help guide them on what they are passionate about regarding research and solving unresolved conflicts. Different worldviews drastically enrich individuals\’ research because everyone has other ethics, values, and opinions. One individual can look at the same conflict and think of a completely different solution than another researcher, but both explanations could be effective in their separate ways. I believe this is the beauty of research, diverse groups see a specific problem, and there are endless ways to solve it. I like being surrounded by various researchers because their views and opinions open up my mind to new ways of thinking, and these ways might be better than the previous ways. I have come across many different research areas that challenge my views, but I use it as a learning tool. Even if I disagree with an individual\’s ethics or understanding of a concept, I understand where they are coming from and find the logic behind their evidence. In my opinion, researchers cannot take other\’s views and ethics to heart; if they did, it would shut them down and provoke them beyond belief. Having diverse research groups is what makes research advance and grow; there is no room to be small-minded.
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