Everything about Reflective practice
Ability to reflect on one's actions so as to engage in a process of continuous learning
Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on one's thoughts, emotions, actions, decisions, assumptions, and professional experiences so as to take a critical stance or attitude towards improving one's own practice, understanding, judgment, and future actions, while challenging automatic reactions and assumptions and engaging in a process of continuous adaptation and learning. According to one definition it involves "paying critical attention to the practical values and theories which inform everyday actions, by examining practice reflectively and reflexively. This leads to developmental insight". A key rationale for reflection is that deliberate reflection on experience is essential for engaging in meaningful action. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Reflective practiceA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Practicing Moderation: Community Moderation as Reflective PracticeInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Reflective Practice in Social WorkThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Effective Reflective PracticeCited 787 times
- Go sideways: Transformative learningA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Reflective writingA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Effective Reflective Practice
Developing critically reflective practice
Critically reflective practice
Reflective Practice
Reflections on Reflective Practice
Orientations to reflective practice
Reflective practice
Reflection, reflective practice and embodied reflective practice
🆕 Influential since 2022
Practicing Moderation: Community Moderation as Reflective Practice
Exploring initial teacher education student teachers’ beliefs about reflective practice using a modified reflective practice questionnaire
Reflective practice and learning in accounting education
Reinforcing Reflective Practice through Reflective Writing in Higher Education: A Systematic Review
Further development of the reflective practice questionnaire
📚 Books worth reading
Reflective Practice in Social WorkChristine Knott · 2007
Philosophy and teacher educationStephen Newman · 1999
Reflective PracticeGillie E. J. Bolton · 2010
Developing Creative Thinking in Beginning DesignStephen Temple · 2018
Reflective practice in social workChristine Knott, Terry Scragg · 2013
The Reflective JournalBarbara Bassot · 2013
Scenarios for Teaching WritingJoan Graham, David A. Jolliffe · 1993
Reflective Practice For Social Workers A Handbook For Developing Professional ConfidenceLinda Bruce · 2013
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