... another lens, and offers critiques of a person's work as a friend. A critical friend takes the time to fully understand the context of the work presented and the outcomes that the person or group is working toward. The friend is an advocate for the success of that work." (p50) Literature review 'Critical friendship' seems to be ambiguous in both its notion and practice. A person may be a friend but does not need to be critical and at the same time a person is critical but may not place himself to be a friend. 'Critical Friendship' is considered as a dilemma posed by merging norms of friendship with those of critique. Achinstein and Meyer (1997) further state that ''these dilemmas arise from fostering critical friendship in a novice teacher learning community. In the study, they find that teachers have differing opinions of how critical friends should be and how friendly critics ...

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