As part of my second assignment for ED5300 I need to analyse an interview with a colleague. I’ve teamed up with Gregory Trotman - Senior Lecturer in Economics, Tourism and Management to ask him a few questions about his academic trajectory. I studied his profile on linked in for a few clues to his background and came up with the following questions:

1. I noticed that as you began your undergraduate study you were employed as a trainee accountant. Did you deliberately seek out opportunities in your field? How did your experience in the workplace inform your study in the early days?
   
   
2. I am interested to hear more about your experience in Japan at the InterTokyo Business School. What was your role there and how did it prepare you for the work that was to come as a lecturer in cross-cultural communication and international business?
   
   
3. Brookfield (1995) talks about how critical reflection is the process of hunting assumptions. He identifies three types of assumptions; paradigmatic, prescriptive and causal. What kinds of assumptions have you been hunting and how are they different between the public and private sector? How have challenging these assumptions informed your practice as an academic? Are there other assumptions evident in higher education that need challenging?

Reference

Brookfield, S. (1995). The getting of wisdom: What critically reflective teaching is and why it’s important. Retrieved from http://www.ronmilon.com/Documents/The%20Getting%20of%20Wisdom.doc