Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Personal Development Planning

REFLECTIVE PRACTICE

Definition - "a set of abilities and skills , to indicate the taking of critical stance, an orientation to problem solving or state of mind." MOON 1999

Reflective Practice is simply creating a habit, structure or routine around examing experience.

"Reflection-in-action"
Donald Schon found that when effective practioneers were faced with a problem in their practice, they work through it instinctively and, drawing on previous similar experiences, they tried and tested out various possible solutions until the resolve the issue.

"Reflecting-on-action"
He proposed that by evaluating this type of event afterwards. Professionals enhanced their learning and added to their 'repertoire' of experiences, from which they could be drawn for future problem situations.

Schon believed that it was the ability to reflect both in, and on, action that identified the effective practioners from the less effective professionals.

The use of learning journals
-to record experience
-to develop learning in ways that enhance other learning
-to deeper quality of learning in the form of critical learning on developing a questioning attitude
-to enable learner to understand own learning process

-to facilitate learning from experience
-to increase attitude involvement in learning and personal ownership of learning
-to increase ability to reflect and improve quality of learning
-to enhance problem solving skills
-as a mean of assessment in formal education
-to enhance professional practice of the professional self in practice

-to explore the self, personal constructs of meaning and understand one's view of the world
-to enhance the personal valuing of the self towards self improvement
-for therapeutic purposes or as a means of supporting behaviour change

-to enhance creativity by making better use of intuitive understanding
-to free up writing and the repretation of learning
-to provide an alternative 'voice' for those not good at expressing themselves
-to faster reflective and creative interaction in a group

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