reflection



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AKA Self-Assessment, Critical Reflection
In the education world, we think of reflection as a skill we teach when students are making portfolios. In reality, being able to honestly reflect on any aspect of your life is probably a good thing!

I like the way David Stein describes it, which fits both areas of education and life: "//Through the process of critical reflection, adults come to interpret and create new knowledge and actions from their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary experiences. Critical reflection blends learning through experience with theoretical and technical learning to form new knowledge constructions and new behaviors or insights.//" (from http://www.inspiredliving.com/business/reflection.htm)

Also see Portfolios.

[|NCREL's Self-Assessment in Portfolios] www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr2port.htm This is from the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.

[|Teaching Critical Reflection] [Susan Imel] (pdf) calpro-online.org/eric/docs/tia00071.pdf

[|Teaching Critical Reflection] [David Stein] www.inspiredliving.com/business/reflection.htm

[|What is Reflective Practice?] [Joy Amulya] (pdf) www.communityscience.com/images/file/What%20is%20Reflective%20Practice.pdf Another version of this article can also be found at http://www.itslifejimbutnotasweknowit.org.uk/files/whatisreflectivepractice.pdf It's unclear which is more current.

[|Promoting Critical Thinking in the Language Classroom] www.hltmag.co.uk/jun13/sart05.htm There is good general information about critical thinking in this article.

[|Reflection, learning and education. What constitutes reflection – and what significance does it have for educators? The contributions of Dewey, Schön and Boud et. al. assessed.] infed.org/mobi/reflection-learning-and-education/

[|Teaching Critical Reflection. Myths and Realities No. 7]. [David Stein] eric.ed.gov/?id=ED445256 ERIC Digest. You can download the full pdf text from here.

[|Focus: Becoming a reflective practitioner] www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/subjects/medev/Focus-_Becoming_a_reflective_practitioner

[|Self-Assessment: The Reflective Practitioner] (pdf) www.utm.edu/departments/ncate_continuous/docs/standard3/ClinicalPractice_Reflective_Practitioner.pdf This page is on the University of Tennessee Martin web site.