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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but a learning experience”. (Jarvis 1992) This is a reflection on an incident that occurred during a shift on the labour ward. I have chosen Gibbs model of reflection (1988) to guide my reflective process. (Gibbs 1998) (Appendix I). Gibbs model (1998) goes through six important points to aid the reflective process‚ including description of incident‚ feelings‚ evaluation‚ analysis‚ conclusion and finally action plan. The advantage of Gibbs’s six-stage model is that it allows you to learn from experiences
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Reflective Paper Doing volunteer work is a great way to get involved within a community. The Houston Food Bank is a place that I had been in before. In my experience I have found that I really like to volunteer and I plan on going back in the near future. Volunteering has helped me in exploring my interests and abilities. It is through volunteer opportunities that I have learned how to communicate with others and acquire skills that can transfer into the workplace. When trying to find a job‚ employers
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Reflective practice is having the capacity to reflect on your own actions. Which may mean taking the informal route that involves questioning yourself to develop your awareness of your own assumptions and thoughts or you could take the more formal route by drawing on research and theory that creates guidance and structure for good practice. This involves reviewing an experience analyzing evaluating and using it to change future outcomes. ‘By engaging in reflection people are usually engaging in a
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The theme of this reflective account is engaging children in participation‚ and enabling children to have a voice. The Every child matters documentation (Department for Education 2010) focuses on the important role of the adult in enabling children to make decisions and encouraging them to participate and make a positive contribution. As a result through this account‚ how children in my setting are encouraged to participate in the outdoor play space will be explored. A small piece of research
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Reflective Essay – 6th June 2012 My journey to become a Counselling Psychologist began in 2008 when as a Life Coach; I had a self referral who suffered from anxiety over his forthcoming exams in his second year at university. I started collaboratively setting goals to manage his workload and set timetable into manageable chunks through asking him challenging questions so that e can start to think for himself. He had plenty of resources namely his family‚ time‚ books but he just would not settle
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REFLECTIVE ESSAY I have been a student at Anglia Ruskin University for one semester‚ and over the duration of my stay I have grown and learned more than I thought possible. I came to this course already knowing that I wanted to be a journalist‚ I had taken media in college and through that I knew exactly what I was heading for. Going through this course has taught me so much more about journalism; moreover it has taught me how to write and express myself‚ how to think like a journalist and
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REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT. “Reflection is a process of reviewing an experience of practice in order to describe‚ analyse‚ evaluate and so inform learning about practice” (Reid‚ 1993 p.305). I am going to reflect on an activity during my placement at a childminder’s setting. While writing about this‚ the model of reflection `I will use is the most commonly used model by Gibbs (1988)‚ which is the model I will look at here. There are six stages in Gibbs’ model‚ namely:- (1) Description (2)
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the issues surrounding nurses ’ accountability in relation to the scenario discussed‚ and to Adult nursing. From the group sessions and further reading I have broaden my understanding of what being an accountable practitioner involves. Nurses are highly responsible for their own actions and care they provide. Consequently they are professionally accountable to the Nursing and Midwifery Council‚ (NMC) as well as their employer‚ public‚ patient‚ families and to themselves. Nurses have to justify why specific
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Reflective writing Marketing and marketing strategies has always been a positive inspiration to me. It has been the center of my interests for the past few years‚ due to its importance in business industry‚ as marketing is considered one of the three major functional areas in organisations. This course has played a significant role in nourishing my skills related to effective marketing and has helped me to gain knowledge about many new marketing theories. International marketing contributes in understanding
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