Developing a Critically Reflective Process by Bethany Osborne

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bethanyjosborne — 2024-05-06 14:32:23 UTC

In essence, [reflection] is a readiness to constantly evaluate and review your practice in the light of new learning (which may arise from within the context of your professional practice). (Moon, 1999)

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bethanyjosborne — 2024-05-06 14:33:32 UTC

Reflective practice is the practice of periodically stepping back to ponder the meaning of, what has recently transpired to us and to others in our immediate environment. It illuminates what the self and others have experienced, providing a basis for future action. In particular, it privileges the process of inquiry, leading to an understanding of experience that may have been overlooked in practice.

(Raelin as cited in Hoyrup & Elkjaer, 2006)

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bethanyjosborne — 2024-05-06 14:34:34 UTC

As practice becomes more repetitive and routine...the practitioner may miss important opportunities to think about what they are doing... They learn, as often happens, to be selectively inattentive to phenomena that do not; fit the, categories of his/her, knowing-in-action, then [s]he may offer from boredom or 'burn-out' and afflict [the people around him/her] with the consequences of his/her narrowness and rigidity. (Schön, 1984)

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bethanyjosborne — 2024-05-06 14:35:26 UTC

We all have blind spots in our work as teachers – practices, assumptions that we never investigate. Perhaps they feel like mere details to us. Perhaps they seem so self-evidently right that we think there’s no need to examine them. Or perhaps we can’t see them clearly because they’re too close to be brought into sharp focus.

(Brookfield, 1995)

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bethanyjosborne — 2024-05-06 14:36:46 UTC

Once individuals become aware of the hidden power of ideas they have absorbed unwittingly from their social contexts, they are then freed to make choices on their own terms.

(Fook, 2006)