Reflecting on ‘Reflective practice’ By: Linda Finlay‚ Phd‚ BA(Hons)‚ DipCOT “Maybe reflective practices offer us a way of trying to make sense of the uncertainty in our workplaces and the courage to work competently and ethically at the edge of order and chaos…” (Ghaye‚ 2000‚ p.7) Reflective practice has burgeoned over the last few decades throughout various fields of professional practice and education. In some professions it has become one of the defining features of competence‚ even if on occasion
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exact replica of what is in front of it. Reflection in professional practice gives back not what it is‚ but what might be‚ an improvement on the original " Biggs (1999). Reflective practice‚ in this context‚ is not about just looking at myself in a mirror and accepting what I see blindly‚ without any question or evaluation. Rather‚ it is about looking at what I have learned and how I can utilise that learning in my teaching practice. In this essay‚ I aim to only discuss what I have been taught and
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line managers break their own designed status quo. THE ROLE OF LINE MANAGERS IN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: ESSAY: ESSAY THE ROLE OF LINE MANAGERS IN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: SUBMITTED TO‚ Dr. FAROOQ-E-AZAM CHEEMA SUBMITTED BY‚ SYED MUHAMMAD RIAZ-UL-HAQUE ( BMS/ 613 ) COURSE: STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRD) DATE: 20-11-2012 THE ROLE OF LINE MANAGERS IN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: Continuous changing in corporate context enhances vast competition among corporate
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understanding of reflective practice through analysis of critical incidents that have impacted on your professional practice. Introduction 225-360 = 463 This assignment will critically reflect on an incident that occurred during a recent placement in a Year two class. It will begin by defining reflective practice with reference to the use of models and theories associated with this term. It will also consider some of the difficulties associated with critical reflection during professional practice. The critical
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Reflective practice – A tool for learning Introduction/Rationale When something goes wrong or something unexpected happens during a lesson or activity‚ we ask ourselves questions such as‚ could I have done something to avoid it? These experiences usually make us grow and we learn from experience‚ and we will be better prepared to face the situation if it happened again. This introspection is generally called “reflection”‚ and all professionals have adopted it in order to improve their practice
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A load of research has been done on learning and reflective practice and its effectiveness on the practitioners and one of the first people to research reflective Practice was Donald Schon in his book “The Reflective Practitioner” in 1983. Schon was an influential writer on reflection and had two main ways of identifying reflection and they were reflection in action and reflection on action. “The practitioner allows himself to experience surprise‚ puzzlement‚ or confusion in a situation which he
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relation to reflective practice (Dewey‚ 1938; Kolb‚ 1984; Schön‚ 1981; Pollard 2008; Moon 1999). From this it could be argued that reflective practice in its simplest terms is looking back on a situation either at the time or a later date to critically analyse that event in terms of what went well‚ what can be improved and the overall outcome of that situation. Teachers have become comfortable with the idea of reflective practice through Donald Schon’s (1983) compositions about reflective practitioners
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Reflective Practice in the context of teaching ESOL Reflective practice engages practitioners in a continuous cycle of self-observation and self-evaluation in order to understand their own actions and the reactions they prompt in themselves and in learners (Brookfield‚ 1995; Thiel‚ 1999). Reflective practice is considered as an evolving concept which views learning as “an active process of reviewing an experience of practice in order to describe‚ analyse‚ evaluate and so inform learning about
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The reflective practice and the use of a journal is an important tool for teachers to use to access their teaching practices and discover what is going well and areas that are in need of improvement. While in the moment we may not be able to see all angles of a situation‚ but when we take the time to sit down and write out thoughts‚ feelings‚ and actions that took place we can look back on a situation and see where and why things happened the way they did and how to maximize or minimize the potential
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GUIDE ON REFLECTIVE PRACTICE Reflective practice is the process of looking back on the work you have previously done in order to get better understanding of yourself‚ how you work‚ your thoughts‚ feelings and anything you can learn from those experiences‚ whether good or bad. It is a way of learning by reviewing and thinking back over a situation or an activity. As a result you can identify your strengths and weaknesses and start working on improving yourself. Most of the time you do some form
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