by watchthedot | Sep 12, 2022
Barbara Larrivee, teaches Reflective Practice at the Department of Learning, University of California, has written particularly about the use of Reflective Practice in classroom teaching, notably ‘Transforming Teaching Practice: Becoming the critically reflective...
by watchthedot | Sep 12, 2022
Wolfgang Köhler, a German gestalt psychologist, conducted learning studies using animals, in which he created the term ‘insight learning’. He described his work in the 1917 book ‘The Mentality of Apes‘. Köhler expanded the notion of simple ‘trial and error’ to suggest...
by watchthedot | Sep 12, 2022
Jean Piaget proposed the theory that children mature in their thinking through different stages of development. He asserted that experience, concept, reflection and action are the foundation by which adult thought is developed (1969). This suggests that reflection is...
by watchthedot | Sep 12, 2022
Donald Schön an American philosopher, author, and Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, produced a series of books on learning, Reflective Practice, and significantly, the development of reflective practitioners. Schön distinguishes between...
by watchthedot | Sep 12, 2022
Melanie Jasper, an expert on reflective practice within healthcare, defines reflection as “the way that we learn from an experience in order to understand and develop practice”. It is not a statement of events that have transpired, nor is it an account. Instead,...
